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
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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
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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
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Paxos Made Moderately Complex [pdf] →
“The di
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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
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The unsexy side of big data: 5 tools to manage... →
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“On the other hand, if you know that you’re pretty solid under your current...”
– Elided Branches: Budgeting for Error
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Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey [Borderless... →
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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
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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.”
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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
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“In 2012, The Linux Foundation will introduce a new annual technical conference,...”
– CloudOpen 2012 | Overview | Linux Foundation Events
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High Scalability - High Scalability - Big List of... →
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“Traditionally we determine the preferences of a market by observing its habits....”
– The supply/demand contradiction « « jimseven jimseven
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“From a cafe perspective having 1000 regulars would make for a very successful...”
– The supply/demand contradiction « « jimseven jimseven
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“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
Corporate culture and women in IT « CloudPundit:... →
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“The success rate of a first-time venture-backed entrepreneur is about 18%. If...”
– Joe (via brycedotvc)
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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
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“Boundary unlocks the intelligence needed to manage these applications by...”
– Boundary
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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
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“Inktank provides enterprise quality professional services and support to those...”
– Inktank
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“Save the date for Amazon Web Services first global customer and partner...”
– Amazon Web Services User Conference | Save the Date
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“SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May. 8, 2012— Amazon Web Services LLC...”
– Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
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“The key to sFlow’s adaptability is that switches export packet headers,...”
– sFlow: Tunnels
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Watch(via Mike Krieger, Instagram at the Airbnb tech talk, on Scaling Instagram)
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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
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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