Finalizing architecture for 1.0

1.we will going with Single App Page (SPA application based on KnockoutJS)
2. A complete rewrite
3. HTML5 + flex
4. NPAPI plugin
5. Daunting task on both front end and backend
6. Backend fully .NET Stack, Web api, SQL server, IIS

Single Page Apps Design

Library Name	Purpose
http://lesscss.org/	for easy CSS
http://modernizr.com/	detect browser feature,version and type
http://html5boilerplate.com/	To kick start our html5 development
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/	for targeting multiple screens
http://jquery.com/
http://knockoutjs.com/	MVVM Pattern for client side Java Script
http://amplifyjs.com/	webstorage
http://sammyjs.org/	Nav/History
http://requirejs.org/	Dependency Resolution
http://underscorejs.org/	Javascript Helper Library
http://momentjs.com/	Javascript easy Date Parsing
http://qunitjs.com/	Qunit

Responsive Testing Tools

http://www.electricplum.com/	test various screen and devices
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/	Resize window to exact size
http://www.responsinator.com/	To check how the site behaves under various resolution and devices
http://www.benjaminkeen.com/open-source-projects/smaller-projects/responsive-design-bookmarklet/	To check how the site behaves under various resolution and devices

SQL Server Local  VS express VS compact vs Server

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynixon/archive/2012/02/26/sql-express-v-localdb-v-sql-compact-edition.aspx

Tools

GIT : http://msysgit.github.com/

ORM Framework Selection

Framework		Notes
Dapper (MicroORM)	http://stackoverflow.com/tags/dapper/info	Good Performance and supported by community
LinqSQL
EntityFramework		10x Slow compared to Hand Coding and memory intensive

C#

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/Find?highlight=true&searchTerm=c%23

http://www.dnrtv.com/archives.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100772/c-sharp-training-videos

ServerSide Libraries:

NInject
Dapper
WebApi

http://css-tricks.com/anythingslider-jquery-plugin/

https://github.com/Comcast/Xooie

flex , flash programming

FXG Editor

http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/

http://www.vector-paint.com/

http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/swfinvestigator/wiki/Home/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97018/how-do-you-decompile-a-swf-file

http://scriptdraw.com/editor-split.html [R]

http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html [R]

Specs

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexsdk/wiki/FXG%202.0%20Specification/

learing flex & flash programming

Basics of display programming

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e3e.html

Graphic Group GroupBase UIComponent FlexSprite flash.display.Sprite

Path FilledElement StrokedElement GraphicElement flash.events.EventDispatcher

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_sparkintro.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS8114D32C-2892-42ed-B230-59A94C7690E1.html

http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/2010/04/08/core-flex-4-elements-vs-children/

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/motion/MatrixTransformer.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e1b.html

http://www.selikoff.net/2010/03/17/solution-to-flex-image-rotation-and-flipping-around-center/

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/components/Image.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7dcb.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/motion/MatrixTransformer.html

http://www.flashandmath.com/howtos/zoom/index.html

http://www.tomauger.com/2013/flash-actionscript/actionscript-3-bitmapdata-draw-offset-and-positioning

My First day at Cricut

www.cricut.com

it's going to be a fun ride :)

Orchestrating the Cloud : back on Content Store

This month it is back to Content Store. The content Store needs few stories to be wrapped up.

The interesting part is in these stories.

1) AWS Cloudformation :

   I orchestrated the  content store stack using aws cloudformation.  Right from dns(route 53), Elastic        load balancer, Cloud front, S3, ec2, access control,MongoDb replica set, all in < 1000 lines of code. Wow!! what powerful framework.  The one think which puzzles me in this whole equation is which framework is authoritative for running script, is it the cloudinit, cfn-init or puppet . Right now I am using the hybrid approach of loading basic user-data and handing the control to cfn-init.


http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/

2) MongoDB Replica set:

  This was another interesting story to setup mongoDB replica set.

         http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets

3) EveryAuth:

 

  Authentication and Authorization in single api,google hybrid auth :) thats cool.

 

Back on Android

This month I was back on Android, I am been tasked to review the Architecture of huge Android Application which have issue with network connectivity.

Monitoring System

This month the focus was on Monitoring System. I was looking on the over all System for preventive and Early Warning System. The first version of system was deployed to production. The teck stack is Groudworks/Nagios with function testing running in ec2.

Monitoring System comparison & architecture

gomez:

http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html

Lookingglass

http://www.lgscout.com/products/scoutvision

enterprisewizard (automated work flow)

http://www.enterprisewizard.com/applications.htm

http://www.zenoss.com/solution/overview

xymon

bigbrother

cacti

Graphical tool.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

installing cacti:

http://www.lastcombat.com/videos.php?one=RRDTool&two=MRTG&f=MRTG_vs_RRDTool

agent-less monitoring via SNMP, SSH, WMI ,Perfmon(context switches),

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx

Windows Monitoring With WMI And Powershell

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12810955/Network-Management-Paper-SNMP-vs-WMI

> Is RRDTool a rewrite of MRTG?

It's a rewrite of a portion of it.  "Classic" MRTG has some limitations
in terms of scalability and flexibility.  As it was originally designed to
count bits (or bytes) passing through an interface in two directions, it
doesn't like values less than 0, non-integer values, negative numbers,
or plotting a number of variables other then 2.  Thus, using it for things
such as plotting temperature can get tricky.  Also, classic MRTG draws a
new graph every interval, five minutes by default.  This can impact server
performance if there are many inputs.

RRDTool (Round Robin Database Tool) allows for more flexibility in the
type of data being plotted, and also doesn't create the actual graphs
until they are requested by a web page "hit".  This overcomes the limitations
of MRTG for plotting oddball or multiple values, etc.  It is also more
server-friendly in terms of CPU usage provided that your graphs don't
become the Slashdot feature site and you wind up with an enormous number
of hits.

http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-snmp.php

3rd Party:

https://www.site24x7.com/index.html

finesse server:

http://vdc01dhgb01w03.idc.logitech.com:8888/

http://www.otrs.com/en/

http://itbod.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/how-to-monitor-netware-servers-using-the-check_nwstat-command-in-groundwork-community-edition-and-nagios/

Nagios XI:

Installation in ec2:

http://labs.nagios.com/2012/01/20/using-nagios-xi-in-amazon-ec2-cloud/

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Using_Nagios_XI_In_Amazon_EC2_Cloud.pdf

installing nodejs on centos

su -
yum install openssl-devel

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
cd node-v0.4.10
./configure
make
make install

Install nodejs on groundworks VM

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

. ~/.bashrc

mkdir ~/local

mkdir ~/node-latest-install

cd ~/node-latest-install

curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1

./configure --prefix=~/local

make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Local install of nagios:

http://ostatic.com/blog/monitoring-web-services-with-nagios

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/299

(nagios easy distribution)

http://omdistro.org/

Nagios docs:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Managing_Plugins_in_Nagios_XI.pdf

How To Install Nagios 3.2.2 On Ubuntu (Under 5 Minutes Total)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOQyOXxWlQ

http://localhost/sriramsite/omd (omdadmin/admin)

distribute monitoring

Security Audit

This Month the Focus was on Enhancing security on the Platform.

Migration to AWS

Services on AWS.


After working on this for over a month on my sparse time, I finally  moved 7 services to aws. It was a wonderful experience to re-architect  these services. It was well received and ignited the drive to move to aws.

Performance Testing

I did performance testing of our service on aws. It's very impressive what asynchronous  programming can do the performance.

Data Analysis Using Hadoop

I have been tasked with analyzing the huge data from Electronic Programme Guide.

Content Store

This month was a wrapping up  content Store, it's pretty complex coding.