High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018?

Internet 134

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 27 billion : CapEx invested by leading cloud vendors in first quarter of 2018; $40 billion : App store revenue in 10 years; $57.5

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. But, when it worked, it was magical. More after jump! Let’s fix that!

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

The success of both tablets and smartphones (and to a lesser extent the fringe battlegrounds of e-readers and other specialized devices), as well as the rapid maturation of cloud-based services, has created a tech hardware war, an OS war, a bidding war for tech firms, and spawned a feeding frenzy in application development.

Hardware 40

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon"). The way the cloud is used helps with security: most instances at my employer have only been up for one or two days. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Vikas left and co-founded Sonoa systems, which later became Apigee which is now part of Google Cloud.

Tuning 52

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