A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss.

Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP, ...