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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. As we say at AWS, It is still Day One for DynamoDB.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover.

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. Examples include Internet Explorer 3-6 as well as Safari on Mac OS X and the first iPhone.

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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily. Likewise, Linux and PostgreSQL will almost certainly be around in 10 years.

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8 signs you need to implement mobile test automation

Testsigma

With a widening gap between mobile browsers and mobile applications, users are spending 90% of their overall mobile internet time on mobile applications. The testing needs can be met via manual testing efforts of course and that is what teams do initially. Automation does not need to get home and relax. Application is diverse.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

I tried to search for details related to segmentation fault on the internet and found many articles; however, it failed to quench my thirst as none of them had the answer I was looking for. ” This is not unusual and doesn’t affect the course of the execution as it just loads desirable items in memory.

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On Technique

O'Reilly

It’s easy to imagine a lot of software professionals saying, “Of course you’ll have to know C. Machine language is reserved for a few people who need to work on some specialized areas of operating system internals, or who need to write some kinds of embedded systems code. But I don’t know if that’s true.