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

All Things Distributed

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. Strategically, IT doesn't matter.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. He hasn’t changed.

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