Archive for Sept 2015


Personal Learning Systems and Life-Long Learning

This post is about personal learning systems, the student's side of the LMS. Not only would a personal learning system provide a better experience, but also give students a tool for life-long learning.
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Using the Scatter-Gather Pattern to Asynchronously Create Fuse Reports

This post describes how I used the scatter-gather pattern to move from a synchronous process for generating fleet reports to an asynchronous solution, avoiding some failures that were caused by load and short HTTP timeout values. The result is a system that is more reliable and scalable than the previous, request-based synchronous solution.
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