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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

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. In 2003, Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf released their book Enterprise Integration Patterns.