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This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance), you can follow him on twitter. Data storage has always been one of the most difficult problems to address, especially as the quantity of stored data is constantly increasing. This is not simply due to the growing numbers of
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Who's Hiring? * Electronic Art's is hiring a QA Engineer and a Cloud Architecture Technical Director II for their Pogo.com team. Fun and Informative Events * A new round of Membase meetups have been planned for January 2011 for San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver and Chicago. Cool
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In 5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS, Netflix's John Ciancutti says one of the big lessons they've learned is to create less chatty protocols: In the Netflix data centers, we have a high capacity, super fast, highly reliable network. This has afforded us the luxury
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* If you missed it here's a link to my webinar and here's the slidedeck for the talk with a buch of additional slides that I didn't have a chance to talk about. The funky picture of Lincoln is classic. * Can MySQL really handle 1,
It's time to do something a little different and for me that doesn't mean cutting off my hair and joining a monastery, nor does it mean buying a cherry red convertible (yet), it means doing a webinar! * On December 14th, 2:00 PM - 3:00
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Who's Hiring? * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". Fun and Informative Events * A new round of Membase meetups have been planned for January 2011 for San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver and Chicago. * Announcing
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It's a truism that we should choose the right tool for the job. Everyone says that. And who can disagree? The problem is this is not helpful advice without being able to answer more specific questions like: What jobs are the tools good at? Will they work on
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In some ways the original Amazon cloud, the one most of us still live in, was like that really cool house that when you stepped inside and saw the old green shag carpet in the living room, you knew the house hadn't been updated in a while. The
Who's Hiring? * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". * Undertone is looking for a Software Engineer and a QA Engineer. Fun and Informative Events * Announcing My Webinar On December 14th: What Should I Do?
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Eating turkey all weekend and wondering what you might have missed? * James Hamilton on why “all you have learned about disks so far is probably wrong" in Availability in Globally Distributed Storage. It turns out for the same reason our financial systems melt down: black swans. The world is
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Professor David Malan gives a very good lecture on scalability for dynamic websites. It's not highly technical, it's an extension course, but it's a great introduction to a wide variety of topics. I really like his teaching style. He continually asks questions, prompts for
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Who's Hiring? * Imo is Hiring an Operations Engineer for a startup web-based service supporting multiple IM protocols. * Appirio is hiring 5 core product engineers for one of Silicon's Valley's "most promising startups". * Tuenti is hiring both a FrontEnd and BackEnd Engineer. * Undertone