All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Managing long-term digital archiving is a challenge for almost every company. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage.

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

We recently worked with one of the Hadoop vendors on the continuous integration system for Hadoop core and other Hadoop-related projects like Pig, Hive, HBase. One of the challenges we faced was very slow automatic tests — full unit/integration test suite takes more than 2 hours for Hadoop core and more than 9 hours for Apache Pig. Although there are different ways to alleviate this problem (divide tests into suites, optimize tests by tweaking timeouts and sleeps, etc.), we decided to star

Speed 100

Speed Testing Java Lambda 100

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 15, 2012

Jeremy Keith just wrote a post about mobile navigation icons wherein he talks about the “three lines” icon that Andy Clarke also advocated when he explored the topic earlier. Theoretically, it would be easy to create the icon using Unicode symbols. For instance, you could create the icon by using the following HTML: ☰ Menu. Unfortunately, as Jeremy points out, many mobile devices fail to handle it correctly.

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Mobile Media Scalability 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2012

When a company engages in custom software development, it is making an investment into itself. Company executives decide to convert capital into software because they believe that the resulting software will make the business better. How we make that investment decision is crucial to the success of the investment. Our first investment decision is based solely on an idea.

Software 40

Software Software Strategy Technology 40

Sutter's Mill

AUGUST 21, 2012

The first panel from C++ and Beyond 2012 is now available on Channel 9: On Static If, C++11 in 2012, Modern Libraries, and Metaprogramming. Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter. Channel 9 was invited to this year’s C++ and Beyond to film some sessions (that will appear on C9 over the coming months!)… At the end of day 2, Andrei, Herb and Scott graciously agreed to spend some time discussing various modern C++ topics and, even better, answering questions from the community.

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C++ Availability Development Software 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calcu

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile. The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 per GB/month.

Storage 110

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 110

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 31, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks. By Werner Vogels on 31 August 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am at funconf in Ireland. After a ride in a Delorean , a private train ride to Galway and a helicopter flight I am sitting outside a cottage on the island of Inishmore.

Energy 85

Energy Scalability Systems Engineering 85

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just returned from two wonderful weeks in the rugged NorthWest wilderness. Every time again I am amazed of the magnificent outdoors at only two hours drive from Seattle.

Internet 73

Internet Internet Scalability Network 73

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 15, 2012

Yesterday we released the very first episode of the Breaking Development Podcast. I’m super excited about this! Much like the conference , the podcast will focus on web design and development for mobile and beyond. It’s primarily going to be interview based, but we’ll probably also shake it up every once and awhile and do something a little different.

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Development Tuning Mobile Design 40

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 6, 2012

As of today, I no longer have to say “I’m working on a book…” Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web is officially in-stock on Amazon as well as at Peachpit (Barnes & Noble is a hair behind, it would seem ). This all means that there are already people reading the ebook, and others will have the paperback within the next couple of days.

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Design Media Servers 40