All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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AWS Latency Storage Cloud 112

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

With so much happening in the computing world, now seemed like the right time to write “Welcome to the Jungle” – a sequel to my earlier “The Free Lunch Is Over” essay. Here’s the introduction: 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’ are being permanently transformed into heterogeneous supercomp

Hardware 40

Hardware Games Operating System Software 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Investments in infrastructure, whether public transport or IT applications, tend to lack hard numbers because they are a means to an end and not an end in themselves. We have transport to enable people to travel to work and allow goods to reach markets. Captive IT departments produce systems that enable us to conduct business faster and more efficiently and at larger scale.

Transportation 40

Transportation Metrics Efficiency Infrastructure 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I always look forward to the December return of the all the lovely advent blogs that are full of web goodness. Sites like 24ways , PHPAdvent and the Performance Calendar mean that I’ll have something to look forward to reading each day. So I was very excited when Stoyan asked if I would like to write another post for the Performance Calendar this year.

Network 40

Network Mobile Performance Development 40