All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

'This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Whether it is large telecommunications manufactures like Nokia Siemens Networks running their real-time data analytics for network operators on AWS, or a luxury hotel chain like Kempinski moving their core IT functions to

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 117

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

My meager, less-awesome-than-Luke attempt to take notes on Luke Wroblewski’s presentation as I assume it would be unreasonable to expect him to produce notes on his presentation as he does for other talks. Here are my notes on his presentation, “It’s a Write/Read Mobile Web” presented at Smashing Conference in 2013. For more notes from the conference, see Luke’s excellent collection.

Mobile 60

Mobile Wireless Education Traffic 60

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management. American business exited the 1970s in terrible shape. Bureaucracy was discredited. Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. There was a call for more employee participation, engagement, and trust.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

ECMAScript 5’s Function.prototype.bind is a great tool that’s implemented in all modern browser JavaScript engines. It allows you to modify the context, this, of a function when it is evaluated in the future. Knowing what this refers to in various contexts is key to being a professional JavaScript developer; don’t show up to an interview without knowing all about it.

Engineering 40

Engineering Development 40

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I've been having a blast over the last couple of weeks putting an intro video together for SpeedCurve. Big thanks to Matt from Assembly for casting an eye over my dodgy 3D AfterEffects camera work. This is just the elevator pitch and I'll be working on some product walk through videos shortly. Let me know what web performance techniques, strategies or theory you'd like to see explained in video format.

Strategy 40

Strategy Performance 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The interwebs, they are aboil! People worthy of respect are publicly shaming those who don’t toe the Progressive Enhancement line. Heroes of the revolution have taken to JavaScript’s defense. The rebuttals are just as compelling. Before we all nominate as Shark or Jet, I’d like to take this opportunity to point out the common ground: both the “JS required” (“requiredJS”?

Development 40

Development Processing 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

'Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace

Cache 114

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 114

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

'Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives.

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Storage Hardware Cache C++ 79

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Here's the slides from my presentation at the Auckland Web Dev Nights meetup. It's an overview of why front-end performance matter, how to monitor it and the challenges faced when building for an increasingly mobile world. Content. Why speed matters, examples of the impact saving a few seconds of load time has had on revenue and engagement. The network constraints and what makes the web slow?

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Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40