Highly Scalable

JANUARY 31, 2012

In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the standard Hadoop’s MapReduce model with Mappers, Reduces, Combiners, Partitioners, and sorting.

C++ 144

C++ Network Ecommerce Processing 144

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. By Werner Vogels on 23 January 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ??

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 25, 2012

There is no shortage of information floating around today. There are a multitude of books, magazines, newspapers, blog posts, articles, videos and podcasts just clamoring for our attention. It’s an incredible thing, this wealth of information we have at our fingertips. Never before has so much knowledge been so easily accessible. We’ve responded by creating a lot of tools that help us collect this information.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Processing 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 30, 2012

In textbook portfolio management, we have a thorough and well researched business case that details the features, costs, and ROI we expect to achieve for each initiative. Even if this did describe how most businesses start IT projects (and it does not), it is futile. Business cases are easily co-opted, marginalized, and bypassed in the normal course of day-to-day business.

Government 45

Government Technology Technology Software 45

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. By Werner Vogels on 13 January 2012 08:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required. Comments. blog comments powered by Disqus. â??.

AWS 113

AWS Scalability Cloud Systems 113

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 22, 2012

Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customers’ on-premises applications. We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures.

Storage 78

Storage AWS Cloud Infrastructure 78

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 11, 2012

Smashing Magazine just launched their newly redesigned site. Personally, I think it looks pretty great. The ads are a little distracting perhaps, but other than that, the side content mostly gets out of the way leading to a pleasant reading experience. And of course, it’s responsive. That adds another level of loveliness. The navigation adjustments in particular are kind of interesting to watch.

AWS 40

AWS Network Design Testing 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 3, 2012

A new year has begun. That means that it’s once again time to take a look back at what books I read over the past year. Unfortunately, it appears I’m trending entirely in the wrong direction. While I managed to read 38 books in 2009 and 33 in 2010 , I only made it through 29 this past year. Hopefully I can reverse that trend in 2012. One interesting trend—at least to me—is that I returned to reading a lot more web related books (10!

Strategy 40

Strategy C++ Design Mobile 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167