May 2012
53 posts
“I think it has a huge impact,” replied Mr. Heyman. “We did fullscale college...”
– Engineers from Foursquare, OMGPOP and Facebook Make the Case for NYC as an Engineering Hotspot | Betabeat
May 21st
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“While it’s true that both Pinterest and Instagram are not making great...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of Data
May 21st
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“Pay for what you don’t use. A downside of the provisioned throughput model is...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - DynamoDB Talk Notes and the SSD Hot S3 Cold Pattern
May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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Paxos Made Moderately Complex [pdf] →
“The di
May 19th
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“VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of...”
– virtualization.info | VMware CTO talks about R&D plans for the future
May 19th
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The unsexy side of big data: 5 tools to manage... →
May 19th
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“On the other hand, if you know that you’re pretty solid under your current...”
– Elided Branches: Budgeting for Error
May 18th
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Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey  [Borderless... →
May 18th
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May 18th
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“What’s important here: CloudFront dynamic acceleration costs the same as static...”
– Amazon CloudFront gets whole site delivery and acceleration « CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing
May 18th
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Calvin: Fast Distributed Transactions for... →
“Calvin supports disk-based storage, scales near-linearly on a cluster of commodity machines, and has no single point of failure. By replicating transaction inputs rather than effects, Calvin is also able to support multiple consistency levels—including Paxosbased strong consistency across geographically distant replicas—at no cost to transactional throughput.”
May 18th
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“Calvin, the researchers claim, can match Oracle’s 500,000 transaction-per-second...”
– Calvin: A fast, cheap database that isn’t a database at all — Cloud Computing News
May 18th
May 17th
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“In 2012, The Linux Foundation will introduce a new annual technical conference,...”
– CloudOpen 2012 | Overview | Linux Foundation Events
May 17th
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High Scalability - High Scalability - Big List of... →
May 17th
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“Traditionally we determine the preferences of a market by observing its habits....”
– The supply/demand contradiction « « jimseven jimseven
May 17th
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“From a cafe perspective having 1000 regulars would make for a very successful...”
– The supply/demand contradiction « « jimseven jimseven
May 17th
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May 15th
“By some estimates, there are four jobs in New York for every developer, a...”
– Help Wanted, and Found, in Brooklyn’s Tech Scene | Brooklyn Based
May 15th
Corporate culture and women in IT « CloudPundit:... →
May 15th
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“An interesting architecture evolution we are seeing in the cloud is how systems...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Now software design decisions are part of the operations budget. Every algorithm...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Netflix: Their architecture is service based. Many small teams of 3-5 person...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Services are the independent units delivering functionality within Amazon....”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Services have been around forever. Client-server programming was invented as a...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Typically a datacenter is a lock, a point of serialization for developers that...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 15th
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“Does that mean that EVB, TRILL, and other similar technologies have no future?...”
– Virtual Networks: the Skype Analogy « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
May 14th
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“A small team in any company can recognize an opportunity, create a product...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT
May 13th
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“The key to the cell is you are creating a scalable and robust MTBF friendly...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Cell Architectures
May 13th
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“V2 has an initial power capacity of 9 megawatts, but was designed for “vertical...”
– Web-Scale Data Center Design Comes to Silicon Valley » Data Center Knowledge
May 13th
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“VIN provides application dependency visibility to applications virtualized on...”
– VMware: VMware Virtualization & Cloud Management: New VMware Cloud Management Application Visibility Update
May 13th
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“The success rate of a first-time venture-backed entrepreneur is about 18%. If...”
– Joe (via brycedotvc)
May 12th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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“Current network management platform strategies, as typified by HP OpenView...”
– Does SDN represent the evolution of Network Management ? Yes but No It Doesn’t — My EtherealMind
May 11th
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“Boundary unlocks the intelligence needed to manage these applications by...”
– Boundary
May 11th
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May 10th
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“Mr. Crowley: We’re getting really good at connecting people with places,...”
– Foursquare CEO Reveals Plans for Personalized Coupons - WSJ.com
May 10th
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“Inktank provides enterprise quality professional services and support to those...”
– Inktank
May 9th
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“Save the date for Amazon Web Services first global customer and partner...”
– Amazon Web Services User Conference | Save the Date
May 9th
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“SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May. 8, 2012— Amazon Web Services LLC...”
– Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
May 9th
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“The key to sFlow’s adaptability is that switches export packet headers,...”
– sFlow: Tunnels
May 8th
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(via Mike Krieger, Instagram at the Airbnb tech talk, on Scaling Instagram)
May 7th
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“A useful metric is both accurate (in that it measures what it says it measures)...”
– Seth’s Blog: Avoiding false metrics
May 6th
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“This year so far has been about creating connections with local communities and...”
– Join us for g|Senegal and g|Cote d’Ivoire - Google Developers Blog
May 6th