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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Sometimes old school is best. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud
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Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! The largest structure ever found in the early universe. The proto-supercluster Hyperion may contain thousands of galaxies or more. (Science) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really
There's good news and bad news. The bad news is I'm out sick so there's won't be a post this week. The good news? There will be that much more for next week! Bored? There are a lot of past issues of
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Hey, wake up! It's HighScalability time: Halloween is early. Do you know what's hiding inside your computer? Probably not. (bloomberg) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining
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Who's Hiring? * Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we'
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Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Like sparkle from a fairy godmother's wand a swarm of 300 autonomous burner drones take flight. (mnn) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if
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With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? Data breaches and cyber attacks occur daily. How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? Google has an ebook on their security approach; Microsoft has some web
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Who's Hiring? * Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform. Engineers will be tasked with building new products and features to solve business and ecommerce challenges as we'
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. You are viewing 581 cards with a total of 1,237,157 stars, market cap of $6.86T and funding of $20.1B. (changelog) Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on
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Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. This issue—the deep nature of centralization—came up as a comment on my article What
New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. RISELabs, those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase—a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware.