All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the many meetings with customers in which I have done a deep dive on their architecture and applications to help them create an accurate cost picture, I have observed two common patterns: 1) It is hard for customers to come to an accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calcu

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 15, 2012

Jeremy Keith just wrote a post about mobile navigation icons wherein he talks about the “three lines” icon that Andy Clarke also advocated when he explored the topic earlier. Theoretically, it would be easy to create the icon using Unicode symbols. For instance, you could create the icon by using the following HTML: ☰ Menu. Unfortunately, as Jeremy points out, many mobile devices fail to handle it correctly.

Mobile 45

Mobile Media Scalability 45

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 14, 2012

We recently worked with one of the Hadoop vendors on the continuous integration system for Hadoop core and other Hadoop-related projects like Pig, Hive, HBase. One of the challenges we faced was very slow automatic tests — full unit/integration test suite takes more than 2 hours for Hadoop core and more than 9 hours for Apache Pig. Although there are different ways to alleviate this problem (divide tests into suites, optimize tests by tweaking timeouts and sleeps, etc.), we decided to star

Speed 100

Speed Testing Java Lambda 100

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Staged Event-Driven Architecture. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers.

Architecture 98

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 98

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 11, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just returned from two wonderful weeks in the rugged NorthWest wilderness. Every time again I am amazed of the magnificent outdoors at only two hours drive from Seattle.

Internet 73

Internet Internet Scalability Network 73

Tim Kadlec

AUGUST 15, 2012

Yesterday we released the very first episode of the Breaking Development Podcast. I’m super excited about this! Much like the conference , the podcast will focus on web design and development for mobile and beyond. It’s primarily going to be interview based, but we’ll probably also shake it up every once and awhile and do something a little different.

Development 40

Development Tuning Mobile Design 40