All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!). By Werner Vogels on 15 May 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2013

When we buy a house, we also buy insurance on the house. Catastrophic events can not only leave the homeowner without shelter, they can be financially ruinous. In the event of a catastrophe, the homeowner has to be able to respond quickly to contain any problems, and be able to either enact repairs herself, or mobilize people and materials to fix the damage.

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O'Reilly Software

MAY 6, 2013

The other day I was thinking about the function for performing dynamic memory allocation in the C standard library, malloc. From the manual pages, If successful, the malloc() function returns a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, it returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to ENOMEM. One of the most common errors when using malloc is not checking for allocation failure.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 5, 2013

A week from now I’ll be on a plane heading to Amsterdam for the excellent Mobilism conference. This is year three for them, and you only need to take one look at this year’s program to see just how incredible the event is going to be. The lineup is full of great speakers with fantastic topics to discuss! Just as impressive is the list of attendees —there’s sure to be some great discussions with a group like this all in one place.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security. By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Itâ??s been a few months since I last wrote about Amazon Redshift and I thought Iâ??d update you on some of the things we are hearing from customers.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems. By Werner Vogels on 10 May 2013 09:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 1, 2013

Responsive design has many challenges. Performance. Tables. Images. Content. Testing. Each of these, and so much more, must be carefully considered. Most of the solutions are still coming together. We are, as some have been apt to say, making this up as we go. One of the biggest challenges for many is the workflow: how do you find a process that works for building and designing something intended for such a wide range of devices, input types and contexts?

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