Sat.Nov 24, 2012 - Fri.Nov 30, 2012

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Sparse Partitions. By Werner Vogels on 30 November 2012 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The amazing AWS re: Invent conference completed last night and I am on my way to Europe for a last visit to customers this year.

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Podcast: Interview on Hanselminutes

Sutter's Mill

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?

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Engaging Auxiliary Forces for Strategic Software Solutions (Part I)

The Agile Manager

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.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Announcing Amazon Redshift, a Petabyte.

All Things Distributed

'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.

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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

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.