Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

While visiting Facebook earlier this month, I gave a shorter version of my “Welcome to the Jungle” talk, based on the eponymous WttJ article. They made a nice recording and it’s now available online here: Facebook Engineering. Title: Herb Sutter: Welcome to the Jungle. In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend—mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records.

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