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This is an interview with Wade Simmons, an Infrastructure Engineer at SimpleGeo, a service making it easy for developers to create location-aware applications, on their increasing use of Node.js as a backend service component, replacing code that would have at one time been written in Java, Python or Ruby.
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on this cold and rainy Friday... * Quotable Quotes: * CarryMillsap: You can't hardware yourself out of a performance problem you softwared yourself into. * @juokaz: schema-less databases doesn't mean data should have no structure * Scalability Porn: * 3 Months To The First Million Users,
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Video is hot on the Internet and people are really interested in knowing how to make it work. Dan Rayburn has a post pointing to a fascinating paper: An Experimental Investigation of the Akamai Adaptive Video Streaming, which talks in some detail about the protocols big players like YouTube, Skype
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Wordnik is an online dictionary and language resource that has both a website and an API component. Their goal is to show you as much information as possible, as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make
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Who's Hiring? * Kabam is looking for a Quantitative Analyst and a Senior Data Engineer to join the Business Intelligence group at our social gaming startup. * Opera Solutions is looking for Senior Software Engineers to work with Big Data analytics, Hadoop, Python, and Java for a rapidly growing analytics
Netflix posted a related article, Redesigning the Netflix API, where they go into a more details about their process. The idea is to ask why is a device so chatty? Can the number of requests be cut in half? Since this will drive up payload sizes, they will try using
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * A good night's sleep is why Facebook CTO Bret Taylor says Friendfeed should have gone cloud, let others take the midnight watch, even if it costs a bit more. * James Urquhart with an information packed interview on a wide range of cloud topics:
MySQL
Some of us are not aware of the tremendous job databases perform, particularly their efforts to maintain the Isolation aspect of ACID. For example, some people believe that transactions are only related to data manipulation and not to queries, which is an incorrect assumption. Transaction Isolation is all about queries,
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Warning, this post is a bit vendor FUDy, but SSL is an important topic and it does bring up some issues worth arguing about. Hacker News has a good discussion of the article. Adam Langley started it all with his article Overclocking SSL and has made a rebuttal to the
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Mollom is one of those cool SaaS companies every developer dreams of creating when they wrack their brains looking for a viable software-as-a-service startup. Mollom profitably runs a useful service—spam filtering—with a small group of geographically distributed developers. Mollom helps protect nearly 40,000 websites from spam, including
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Submitted for your reading pleasure... * Super Bowl Prediction: Pittsburgh 27, Green Bay 24. I'll be rooting for Green Bay, but the Pittsburgh defense will eventually win the day, beating back the fleet footed, quick tossing, and sharp shooting Aaron Rodgers. Roethlisberger will make exactly 3 plays that matter,
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Piccolo (not this or this) is a system for distributed computing, Piccolo is a new data-centric programming model for writing parallel in-memory applications in data centers. Unlike existing data-flow models, Piccolo allows computation running on different machines to share distributed, mutable state via a key-value table interface. Traditional data-centric models