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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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The Safe Haven of Regulation

The Agile Manager

True, both IBM and Microsoft were subject to regulation in 1956 and 2001, respectively, to limit their monopolistic powers. Facebook would be regulated by bodies such as the US Fed and the UK's Payment Systems Regulator and their equivalents in every jurisdiction where they offer payment services.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. By the way, now I like wine, from everywhere.

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What I Read in 2011

Tim Kadlec

” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. Linchpin by Seth Godin.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This framework resembles the approach suggested in [JK98].

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