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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. Jul 20 - Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors by Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Kinshuk Govil, Mendel Rosenblum in the Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 5-8, 1997, St. Comments ().

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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Smashing Magazine

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump!

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