February, 2013

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The Amazon Elastic Transcoder - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Elastic Transcoder. By Werner Vogels on 11 February 2013 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). While I was returning from an exciting time in New Orleans watching the Super Bowl, AWS launched a very cool, brand new service: Amazon Elastic Transcoder.

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Investing in Software Through Experts, Analysis or Discovery

The Agile Manager

Whether investing in equities or in software, there are three distinct approaches to how we make an investment decision: based on our intuition or experience, based on our analysis of an opportunity, or based on our ability to rapidly discover and respond to market feedback. Let's look at each in turn. When we invest based on experience, our decisions are rooted in the expertise we've gained from things we've done before.

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Commandments of a Mobile Web

O'Reilly Software

Over the past few years, there’s been certain paradigm shifts in web development. When you think of milestones that really changed how development on the web was done, the two biggest were Ajax and HTML5. Development was identifiably different before and after such technological advancements. There were some who initially doubted the technologies, but I’m sure such doubters eventually saw the light.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure.

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Resilience. By Werner Vogels on 15 February 2013 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems.

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