All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Ecommerce Latency 118

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

A few weeks ago at the Build conference, Scott Hanselman and I sat down to talk about C++ and modern UI/UX. The podcast is now live here: The Hanselminutes Podcast, Show #346 “Why C++” with Herb Sutter. Topics Scott raises include: 2:00 Scott mentions he has used C++ in the past. C++ has changed. We still call it C++, but it’s a very different language now. 5:30 (Why) do we care about performance any more?

C++ 40

C++ Media Speed Efficiency 40

Jos

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Echa un vistazo al análisis más reciente que he hecho de la web del Senado , donde hablo sobre algunos cambios que han llevado a cabo desde que publicó el nuevo sitio. Hoy se ha presentado el rediseño de la web del Senado de España. Sin entrar a valorar su coste o la necesidad, quería analizarla desde el punto de vista de implementación frontend. Particularmente, me gustan los análisis que hacen webs como zoompf sobre distintos sitios web, presentando los problemas encontrados y ofreciendo soluc

Speed 130

Speed Internet Internet Design 130

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

At one point or another, most firms will engage "auxiliary forces" - contract with firms for development teams - to develop software for them. If Machiavelli were sourcing software projects, he wouldn't approve. "These arms [auxiliaries] may be useful and good in themselves, but for him who calls them in they are always disadvantageous; for losing, one is undone, and winning, one is their captive.

Software 40

Software Software Games Innovation 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a highly scalable, reliable and elastic queuing service that just works. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-case

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 107

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The Andrew File System. By Werner Vogels on 17 November 2012 11:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). This weekend I am heading to Brussels for meetings with the European Commission, specifically with Vice-president Neelie Kroes who owns the Digital Agenda for the EU, about how to accelerate cloud usage in both business and government in Europe.

Systems 88

Systems Government Cache Scalability 88

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using Encryption for Authentication. By Werner Vogels on 09 November 2012 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Now that I am enjoying some time in Seattle with real weekends, I like to remind you that my reading list is called back-to-basics.

Network 85

Network Scalability Systems 85

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

My live Q&A after Friday’s The Future of C++ talk is now online on Channel 9. The topics revolved around…. … recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, and talks about some announcements related to C++11 support in VC++ 2012 and the formation of the Standard C++ Foundation. Herb takes questions from a live virtual audience and demos the new [link] site on an 82 inch Perceptive Pixel display attached to a Windows 8 machine.

C++ 40

C++ Tuning Virtualization Development 40

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Yesterday, many thousands of you were in the room or live online for my talk on The Future of C++. The talk is now available online. This has been a phenomenal year for C++, since C++11’s publication just 12 months ago. And yesterday was a great day for C++. Yesterday I had the privilege of announcing much of what Microsoft and the industry have been working on over the past year.

C++ 40

C++ Software Software Availability 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte-scale Data Warehouse Service. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, we are excited to announce the limited preview of Amazon Redshift , a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.

Cloud 164

Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 164

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I just saw a tweet that’s worth commenting on: Almost right, and we have already reached that. I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. What I gave was a min/max range estimate of roughly 16 to 256 (the latter being threads) under different sets of assumptions.

Hardware 40

Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Weighted Voting for Replicated Data. By Werner Vogels on 02 November 2012 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The last two weeks in Europe and Israel (The image above is from Tel Aviv) were intense so I didnt get to do much reading, hence I didnt post any reading suggestions.

Operating System 84

Operating System Scalability Systems 84