All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 26, 2011

Mandy Brown very recently posted a thoughtful and well articulated look at the importance of digital preservation. Her post was sparked by a flurry of sites that have recently been either dissolved (Cork’d), “sunsetted” (Delicious) or simply completely removed from existence (Geocities). She also mentions the infamous data loss of Ma.gnolia where many people (me included) lost the bookmarks we had been carefully collecting and curating.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 12, 2011

In the previous post , we took a look at market factors that suggest the technology sector could be on a multi-year bull run, in a bubble, or possibly both. In this post, we'll look at what that means for leaders of captive IT departments and tech firms. If tech is in a bull market or bubble, it means inflation and volatility for a lot of tech businesses and captive IT shops.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I frequently travel outside of the US. Often to Europe and increasingly to the Middle & Far East and Australia. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2011

When Steve Case was asked "how do you turn defeat in to victory" he gracefully quoted Teddy Roosevelt. It is a great speech that will probably inspire people forever.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 18, 2011

Yet again, the debate over whether or not HTML5 should be used as a buzzword is rearing it’s head. This time, the instigator is a seemingly unlikely group–the W3C itself! The W3C just released an official HTML5 logo that would look quite appropriate on any superhero costume with a cape (see SuperHTML5Bruce as evidence). The issue, as I see it at least, is not really with the logo itself.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). Companies entered the downturn with record levels of cash. With so much uncertainty, most firms didn't bet on expansion. Instead, they elected to preserve cash rather than deploy it, and slashed payrolls to cut operating costs.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2011

A brief exchange on Twitter led me to think about one of the things I most definitely do not love about the internet—captchas. While I won’t go quite as far as to say captchas are the spawn of Satan (let’s wait for the DNA tests before we go that far) I will say that I believe they are not only the wrong solution, but an arrogant and inconsiderate one.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 1, 2011

Continuing what I started last year , here’s the list of books I managed to read this year. I read slightly fewer books this year than last (33 compared to 38). I didn’t exactly aim high (in last year’s post I said I wanted to read at a “similar pace”) so I guess I didn’t fail that miserably. I’m slowly reducing the amount of movies and TV I watch, so hopefully that will provide a little more room to read a bit more in 2011.

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