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It's Christmas time and you've been wracking your brain trying to find the perfect gift that will teach your loved ones about the cloud in a simple and entertaining way. What to do? Fortunately for you, Santa has a new elf this year—Forrest Brazeal—who
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This is the second part of my interview with Alex DeBrie on his new insta-classic: The DynamoDB Book. To read the first part of the interview please mosey on over to The DynamoDB Book: An Interview With Alex DeBrie On His New Book. Go ahead. Take your time. It'
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You know nothing about DynamoDB. At least that’s what I realized the first time I heard Rick Houlihan give his now infamous talk at AWS re:Invent 2018 on Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB. In that talk Rick revealed for the first time the inner
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Google added another book into their excellent SRE series: Building Secure and Reliable Systems. It's free to download, so don't be shy. It's not short: 557 pages and 21 chapters! So what's it about? In short it's about "reliability
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Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 “Todd, can you explain ‘The Cloud’? What is it?” I was asked this question at lunch by Joe, a fellow tour member on a recent trip Linda (my wife) and I took to France. It was not a question I was expecting
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What is the cloud? Why is it called a cloud? How does the cloud work? What does it mean when something is 'in the cloud'? I wrote a new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10, answering those questions for the complete beginner. It makes the
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This is a guest post from Vlad Mihalcea the author of the High-Performance Java Persistence book, on the notion of performance and scalability in enterprise systems. An enterprise application needs to store and retrieve as much data and as fast as possible. In application performance management, the two most important
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Chapter by chapter Sergey Ignatchenko is putting together a wonderful book on the Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games, though it has much broader applicability than games. Here's a recent chapter from his book. Enter Front-End Servers [Enter Juliet] Hamlet: Thou art as sweet as the sum
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For the first time in ten years there has been an update to the classic Red Book, Readings in Database Systems, which offers "readers an opinionated take on both classic and cutting-edge research in the field of data management." Editors Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker
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“The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so." -- Josh Billings Is Parallel Programming Hard? Yes. What Can You Do About It? To answer that, Paul McKenney, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center, vetran of parallel powerhouses
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If you are Google you don't just complain about performance on the web, you do something about it. Doing something about web performance is the job of one Ilya Grigorik, Developer Advocate, Make the Web Fast at Google, and author of a great new book: High Performance Browser
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Update 2: Velocity 09: John Allspaw, 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr. Insightful talk. Some highlights: Change is good if you can build tools and culture to lower the risk of change. Operations and developers need to become of one mind and respect each other. An