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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 27 billion : CapEx invested by leading cloud vendors in first quarter of 2018; $40 billion : App store revenue in 10 years; $57.5

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. In addition, they introduced a hosted version of MovableType in 2003 called TypePad to compete with other popular cloud platforms. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line.

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