January 2012
27 posts
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“Tenzing is a query engine built on top of MapReduce for ad hoc analysis of...”
– Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework
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“Denormalzation, creating special purpose objects instead of distributed rows...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook Timeline: Brought to You by the Power of Denormalization
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“Like address mapping (and virtual memory) tunneling introduces another address...”
– Networking Needs a VMware (Part 1: Address Virtualization) « Network Heresy
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“IBM’s investment in OpenFlow reflects the market reality that the data center...”
– IBM News room - 2012-01-24 IBM and NEC Team Up to Enable Industry Innovators Tervela and Selerity to Transform their Networks with OpenFlow - United States
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“The AWS Storage Gateway is a service connecting an on-premises software...”
– AWS Storage Gateway.
1. Bound to happen. 2. As
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“Substitutes: Every purchase is a choice, and that means the buyer can choose to...”
– Seth’s Blog: The pricing formula (S&S)
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“An insatiable thirst for food, power, energy, reassurance, clicks, funding or...”
– Seth’s Blog: Insatiable
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“Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and...”
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“Our team owns instance pricing for Amazon EC2. We also run the Spot...”
– I’m Hiring: Rockstar Product Manager to Drive Innovation for Amazon EC2 | LinkedIn
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Cloud Ops: Operating OpenStack Clouds — An... →
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“Near real-time event streams are becoming a key feature of many popular web...”
– Feeding Frenzy: Selectively Materializing Users’ Event Feeds | Yahoo! Research
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OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for... →
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“The truth is, the average Android user is not the same as the average iPhone...”
– Daring Fireball’s John Gruber.
Indeed, that is the truth. For Google, though, that is a non-issue: users are eyeballs for them to sell to their real customers, advertisers. For the rest of the world, app developers included, an Android user will most likely be less profitable than an iPhone/iPad...
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“While Etsy didn’t quite live up to their NIH pledge, as they built most...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - The Etsy Saga: From Silos to Happy to Billions of Pageviews a Month
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“So simply, the difference between server virtualization, and network...”
– Networking Doesn’t Need a VMWare … « Network Heresy
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Seriously wish more people grokked this.
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“To have to think about things I didn’t have to before, slows me down and...”
– Scripting News: Forced upgrades - the cognitive impact of [bad, any?] ui changes.
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“IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form...”
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
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BRYCE DOT VC: Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop... →
brycedotvc:
As I tune in and out of the recent flurry of discussion around “big data” I can’t help but be reminded of the the old sailor poem:
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
If I had a nickel for every founder who told…
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“If you have a public API you have to protect and migrate that, but otherwise you...”
– Simplicity – It’s a confidence trick « Adventures in systems land
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“This is the trade-off between profits & growth. You can drive profits up by...”
– Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?
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“• “Why would someone spend their money with you — so what is unique about you?”...”
– How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead - Unboxed - NYTimes.com
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“The web is asynchronous. Time frames have accelerated...”
– Seth’s Blog: The artificiality of time
December 2011
38 posts
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“Software development is a creative activity and needs to be treated as such....”
– Recruiting programmers to your startup - Chris Dixon
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“If you want to understand public interaction with displays, you need to spend...”
– Future Perfect » Seoul, Digital View
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“When EC2 first started the mental model was of a magic Pez dispenser supplying...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Strategy: Guaranteed Availability Requires Reserving Instances in Specific Zones
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“At this point in time, I believe the path to networking future isn’t going to be...”
– Responding: On optimizing traffic for network virtualization — My Etherealmind
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“Similar to an EBS volume, ENIs have a lifetime that is independent of any...”
– Amazon Web Services Blog: New - Elastic Network Interfaces in the Virtual Private Cloud
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“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re...”
– Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It - NYTimes.com
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“We call it the ‘product launch’ when you put the product in front of customers —...”
– Eric Reis
this is good advice
Why you shouldn’t launch your startup in the press — Tech News and Analysis (via fred-wilson)
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“So I think that history is going to repeat itself. Over the next few decades the...”
– The Cloud Warning
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“Software options proliferate extremely easily, too easily in fact, because too...”
– Wired 7.01: The Revenge of the Intuitive (via ninakix)
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“Transactions are implemented by writing an intention log record to the front of...”
– Perspectives - Hyder: Transactional Indexed Record Manager for Shared Flash Storage
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“Want a bigger brand? Make bigger promises. And keep them.”
– Seth’s Blog: The simple first rule of branding and marketing anything (even yourself)
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“You can call it “Internal Advertising” if you want; I find that a bit...”
– Culture Jamming: America’s next big industry? | gapingvoid
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Silver Spring, EMC to Tackle Smart Grid Data :... →
EMC, right now, strikes me as the only expansionary player that has a handle on a winning strategy and is taking the long view.
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“As I sat and played with the CMS and tweaked the IronFoundry service here and...”
– There Goes The Neighborhood « The Loose Couple’s Blog
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Cloud Foundry: Cloud Foundry Welcomes .NET... →
cloudfoundryblogblog:
This week two Seattle-based companies, Tier3 and Uhuru Software, contributed .NET Framework support to the Cloud Foundry community. Cloud Foundry was designed from the outset to support multiple developer frameworks and the new .NET supports adds to community created support for Erlang, Haskell,…
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“In describing Timeline’s software infrastructure, Piantino will only go so far....”
– Facebook Pulls Back Curtain on ‘Timeline’ | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
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“The current VXLAN draft is very explicit: VXLAN has no control plane. There is...”
– VXLAN, IP multicast, OpenFlow and control planes « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
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“Dovetail is a free smartphone app that transmits text messages to and from...”
– Dovetail: Voice to the People by Kevin Vogeltanz — Kickstarter
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“The consumption of these API services may represent general use (solving an...”
– CSC: Leading Edge Forum Executive Programme
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“The lesson of this story has been known in military circles for a long time. An...”
– Bits or pieces?: Deconstructing Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures →
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““The cloud gives the opportunity to be able to empower applications owners...”
– VMware’s Case for Reducing Cloud Management to Its Basic Tasks - ReadWriteCloud
There’s a lot here that points at VMware’s orientation to the rest of the world and the strategic direction that will come from it.