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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautiful morning: * Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms. In distributed computing systems nodes reach a quorum when deciding what to do as a group. It turns out bees also use quorum logic when deciding on where to nest! Bees do it a
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Release early and often. A/B testing. Creating a landing page and buying ads on AdSense. All are ways of providing quick feedback in order to validate an idea. If you are like Zynga, with 250 million active users a month, how do you cost effectively prove out a game
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What should the architecture of your scalable, real-time, highly available service look like? There are as many options as there are developers, but if you are looking for a general template, this architecture as described by Prashant Malik, Facebook's lead for the Messages back end team, in Scaling
Who's Hiring? * Animoto is building a Systems (DevOps) Team. Please apply here. * Clustrix Inc. - Learn more about Clustrix's interpretation of NewSQL. Please apply here. * deviantART is looking for Network and Systems Operations Engineer. Please apply here. * Hadapt brings high-performance SQL to Hadoop, and is looking
Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautiful blue sky, birds chirping Friday morning: * Unlocked Achievements: Twitter: 900,000 Apps, 600,000 Developers And 13 Billion API Requests Per Day; Rackspace Now Has 70,000 Servers * Quotable Quotes for the speed of light Alex: * @LusciousPear According to everyone I talk
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Mind the Gap: Reconnecting Architecture and OS Research is a paper presented at HotOS XIII, the place where researchers talk about making potential futures happen. For a great overview of the conference take a look at this article by Matt Welsh: Conference report: HotOS 2011 in Napa. In the VM/
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Viddler is in the high quality Video as a Service business for a customer who wants to pay a fixed cost, be done with it, and just have it work. Similar to Blip and Ooyala, more focussed on business than YouTube. They serve thousands of business customers, including high traffic
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Submitted for your reading pleasure...Hi Mom!... * We don't need no stinking servers says the W3C. This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C by Marshall Kirkpatrick. Browsers talking to directly to other browsers. Marshall is right, this could be very big. * Quotable Quotes for
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With BigData comes BigStorage costs. One way to store less is simply not to store the same data twice. That's the radically simple and powerful notion behind data deduplication. If you are one of those who got a good laugh out of the idea of eliminating SQL queries
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Who's Hiring? * MathWorks Looking for Multiple, Full-time Scaling Experts. Apply now: http://matlab.my/lVmunb * Gazillion Entertainment is looking for a Web Developer Generalist to work on massively multiplayer online games. Please apply here. * Edmunds.com helps people find the car that meets their every need. We’re
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Since The Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage was published we've a had few updates that people might not have seen. Amazon of course released their Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region. Netlix shared their Lessons Learned
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region * A network change was performed as part of our normal AWS scaling activities in a single Availability Zone in the US East Region. The configuration change was to upgrade the capacity of the primary network.