Strategy
Facebook's Ryan Mack gave a MySQL Tech Talk where he talked about using what he called Non-stored Procedures for adding edges to Facebook's social graph. The question is: how can edges quickly be added to the social graph? The answer is ultimately one of deciding where
Paper
Misco: A MapReduce Framework for Mobile Systems is a very exciting paper to me because it's really one of the first explorations of some of the ideas in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud. What they are trying to do is
ambient
"But it is not complicated. [There's] just a lot of it." -- Richard Feynman on how the immense variety of the world arises from simple rules. Contents: 1. Have We Reached the End of Scaling? 2. Applications Become Black Boxes Using Markets to Scale and Control