February, 2014

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

'In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. We don’t take a view on which of these approaches is more likely to maximize business success.

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Write a Test Case

O'Reilly Software

Your application just broke, oh no! It couldn’t have been your code, right? I’ve always had trouble spotting mistakes in my own work such as spelling, grammar, mathematical, or even in programming. With spelling or grammar, office applications quickly pick up on my mistakes and underline them for me, but most of my mistakes come from my own hubris.

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Building Distributed Systems with Mesos

Abhishek Tiwari

Apache Mesos is a popular open source cluster manager which enables building resource-efficient distributed systems. Mesos provides efficient dynamic resources isolation and sharing across multiple distributed applications such as Hadoop, Spark, Memcache, MySQL etc on a dynamic shared pool of resources nodes. This means with Mesos you can run any distributed application which requires clustered resources.

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Making is Part of Design

The Agile Manager

I had intended this month's blog to be about how industrialization would expand the secondary labor market and subsequently be a lost opportunity to create a new generation of knowledge workers rather than the next generation of wage laborers. While writing that, it occurred to me that industrialization appears to separate design from making, when in fact it does not, and that separation - real or otherwise - is essential to understanding the separation of labor into primary and secondary strata

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Why are current DAM offerings so uninspiring?

Abhishek Tiwari

Anjali Yakkundi from Forester offers some interesting insights about current digital asset management (DAM) technologies in the market. Most of DAM vendors are either struggling to adopt new digital trends or unable to respond to new type of requirements.

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Migrating to Statamic

Abhishek Tiwari

Migration of this blog from Jekyll to Statamic is now complete. To my surprise migration process was very smooth and quick (it took less than 5 hours). As part of migration I also ported design of existing Jekyll website to Statamic. In addition, actual content migration was quite straightforward.

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