All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am thrilled that now both Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS support resource-level permissions. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources.

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Cloud AWS Database Scalability 116

Sutter's Mill

JULY 9, 2013

I don’t often link to other articles, but this one is worth reading. Why mobile web apps are slow. by Drew Crawford. … So if you are trying to figure out exactly what brand of crazy all your native developer friends are on for continuing to write the evil native applications on the cusp of the open web revolution, or whatever, then bookmark this page, make yourself a cup of coffee, clear an afternoon, find a comfy chair, and then we’ll both be ready.

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Mobile C++ Code Development 53

Alex Russell

JULY 9, 2013

There’s a palpable tension in my shoulders as I tap this out — I know already that this post will create cringe-worthy responses and name calling and all the rest. But on we plod. A friend called out to me a peculiar feature of a conference Program Committee they were serving on: that it was part of the PC’s role to keep a look out for strong minority/female speakers and encourage them to submit to the open CFP.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Programming Engineering Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

JULY 7, 2013

When we write about technology online, things can sound a bit black and white. Always do this, never do that. But blog posts and articles can’t cover every scenario. The author knows nothing about your team, your site, your business goals, your deadlines, the behavior of the people who visit your site or the technology they use to visit with. There are characteristics of projects that may make a prescribed solution inappropriate.

Mobile 40

Mobile Network Technology Technology 40

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2013

A lot of sites are now using responsive design techniques to create great user experiences across mobile, tablet and desktop. Unfortunately images are often just set to 100% width with the same large image being delivered to all browsers and platforms. Picturefill was an important step in delivering responsive images and David Newton's fork now extends that approach to include WebP and SVG images in the mix you send down the pipe.

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Media Google Mobile Design 40