All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

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 ().

Operating System 144

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I suggested the radical modular breakdown of applications in a 2002 article , saying that: "the application , once the central fixture of computer use, would dissolve into a soup of servers, application fragments, and user interfaces." It’s also critical to install updates quickly as bugs are found and fixed.

Development 69

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems. Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS.

Mobile 106

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication.

Performance 113

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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 most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

Retail 152

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. Service businesses (e.g.,

Education 45

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. released 2002 ( Large preview ). Drupal is not just a CMS.

Ecommerce 140

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