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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

It was the very first time (1968) the world had ever seen a mouse, seen outline processing, seen hypertext, seen mixed text and graphics, seen real-time video conferencing. It’s really engineered to absorb failure really naturally, make sure everyone is taken care of, and go on to something productive next.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

In this session, learn how AWS focuses on efficiency across all aspects of its infrastructure and is innovating to find new ways to lower its carbon footprint, as it aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. Explore an implementation of this architecture with PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein.

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I Ran This Whole Conference and I Didn’t Even Get a T-shirt

J. Paul Reed

It turns out I wrote quite a bit about this part of the process, so I put those thoughts in their own companion post. For speakers who decided they didn’t want their honorarium, we provided a variety of non-profit organizations (including Black Girls Code , Code 2040 , Girls Who Code , Mother Coders , and Maven Youth Camp ) to donate it to.