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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. EFF : EU countries that do not have zero rating practices enjoyed a double digit drop in the price of wireless data after a year. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

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. slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. A satellite image of phytoplankton populations or algae blooms in the Baltic Sea.

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Brendan@Intel.com

Brendan Gregg

I'm thrilled to be joining Intel to work on the performance of everything, apps to metal, with a focus on cloud computing. These were the opening words of my 2019 [AWS re:Invent talk], which I followed by demonstrating rapid on-the-fly dynamic instrumentation of the Intel wireless driver.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

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. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. It would mean a great deal to me.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. They are complex and ridiculously expensive.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

Some protocols can run afoul of this changing topology — even something simple, like a wireless client disconnect. If one of these clients is on a wireless connection that gets interrupted, the client proxy continues to exist. This level of freedom enables deployment topology to change with almost reckless abandon.