links for 2008-07-15

• Daily Stand-Up Meetings
  (tags: agile scrum)
• Emergent Architecture – yes or no?
  (tags: agile architecture scrum)
• Challenges of Agile Adoption
  (tags: agile)
• Dealing With Downtime
  (tags: availability management)
• Protocol Buffers – Reflection ? dynamic generation?
  Includes a note on passing around the .proto description in the stream.
  (tags: google protocol)
• Interoperability Happens – So You Say You Want to Kill XML….
  Read the comments from some truth in respect of protocol buffers that Ted has missed.
  (tags: google protocol)
• Facebook Releases Cassandra as Open Source
  Cassandra is an structured store with write ahead logging and indexing. Jeff Hammerbacher, who leads the Facebook Data team described Cassandra as a BigTable data model running on a Dynamo-like infrastructure.
  (tags: distributed storage)
• United States Plans New Travel Procedures for 27 Countries
  (tags: travel us)
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Travel
  (tags: travel us)