May 2012
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“Let’s say you have 64 servers. 16 of them are brand new Cisco UCS blades. 18 of...”
– Lex Parsimoniae : Cloud Provisioning with a Razor | Nickapedia
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“Many of the services that are critical to Google’s ad business have historically...”
– Research at Google
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Watch#StartupStories: Failure (by NASDAQ)
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“Lastly, Wists didn’t have the pinning metaphor that people have claimed is...”
– Wists-ful thinking: lessons from a prelude to Pinterest — Tech News and Analysis
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“Cisco thinks like a hardware company, and it invariably proposes hardware...”
– Lessons for Cisco in Cius Failure | Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds
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“The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets...”
– Seth’s Blog: Thriving in a wet environment
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“The thesis statement is that, it is practical to build a centralized system for...”
– Zheng Cai, “Maestro: Achieving Scalability and Coordination in Centralized Network Control Plane”, Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, 2011. [pdf]
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“Our NICE tool applies model checking to explore the state space of the entire...”
– nice-of - A NICE way to test OpenFlow controller applications - Google Project Hosting
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“Maestro is an “operating system” for orchestrating network control...”
– maestro-platform - A scalable control platform writen in Java which supports OpenFlow switches - Google Project Hosting
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“Connections is the measure of new connections, i.e. requests, that can be...”
– Capacity in the Cloud: Concurrency versus Connections
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“Android, all the way through version 4.0, also makes no guarantees about keeping...”
– Building Twilio Client for Android
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“VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (VMware vMSC) is a new configuration within...”
– VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster Case Study — EMC leverage.
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“Now, Juniper is moving up to the TCG’s Board of Directors. Our promotion...”
– Movin’ On Up - J-Net Community
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GUIDELINES FOR IMPROVING SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN... →
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“LAS VEGAS, NV – May 23, 2012 – Today at EMC World, Puppet Labs, the leading...”
– Puppet Labs Announces Next-Generation Provisioning Solution | Puppet Labs
“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 