All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

The Agile Manager

JUNE 21, 2011

We're in the middle of a much-anticipated wave of tech firms listing, and the valuations look a bit frothy. Pandora has 94 million subscribers but doesn't have advertising volume nor premiums to sufficiently monetize them. Groupon has cumulative losses in excess of half a billion dollars, churns 40% of it's paying customers (merchants) and has a high cost of entering new markets.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 14, 2011

Just a reminder for those interested in using C++ to harness GPUs for fast code: My keynote at AMD Fusion Developer’s Conference will be webcast live. I’ll post another link when the recorded talk is available for on-demand viewing. The talk starts at 8:30am U.S. Pacific time tomorrow (Wed June 15). Today Jem Davies of ARM also gave a keynote.

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Tim Kadlec

JUNE 13, 2011

Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design is an example of what can happen when an incredibly intelligent person is allowed to write in their own voice about a technique that they not only firmly believe in–but that they are using every day. It’s a compact book but Ethan manages to fill it full of plenty of information and he does so in a conversational, often humorous tone that will make you laugh at one sentence and then force you to thoughtfully ponder the implications of the next.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 7, 2011

The “Ask Me Anything” interview is now live. Thanks again for all your questions ; we took as many of the most popular ones as we could. I hope you enjoy it.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 16, 2011

Yesterday I had the privilege of talking about some of the work we’ve been doing to support massive parallelism on GPUs in the next version of Visual C++. The video of my talk announcing C++ AMP is now available on Channel 9. (Update: Here’s an alternate link ; it seems to be posted twice.). The first 20 minutes has nothing to do with C++ in particular or any platform in particular, but tries to make the case that the right way to view the “trends” of multicore computing,

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