Aug
30
2007
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“But if you come to a point in your design where something like Paxos needs to be brought out, maybe the universe is telling you that you’re doing it wrong.”
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Almost infinite scaling of applications through the use of uniquely identified “entities” which sound a lot like resources in REST. Argues that atomic transactions cannot span entities. Lots of similarities with Talis Platform notion of changesets
Aug
18
2007
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The key of my prediction is that with all of the stores and compute farms in the clouds, it’ll be a matter of creating distributed programs that can easily be managed to serve our every day computing needs.
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e, elemental, is a stack for the data web
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Includes the closure of the SaaS GPL “loophole”
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I don’t think I’ve ever been so entertained by an educational video
Aug
11
2007
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A nice group of presentations all in one place (via sam ruby)
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Good to see someone sharing real world experience of common monitoring tools
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Analyzes slow web pages
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‘lori’ can tell you how long it takes to load a page – useful for profiling
Aug
04
2007
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Another conclusion of our work is that a scale-out system can achieve about four times the performance of a similarly priced scale-up system. In the case of our application, this performance is measured in terms of queries per second.
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Visualising a python program
