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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture

All Things Distributed

Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. I have been a fan of much of Matts work as he combined common sense engineering with excellent intellectual innovation. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

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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. Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” Online, and live. Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2021. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

The power of Alexa in the hands of every developer, without having to know deep learning technologies like speech recognition, has the potential of sparking innovation in entirely new categories of products and services. Developers can now build powerful conversational interfaces quickly and easily, that operate at any scale, on any device.

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