Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases.

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Dynamic Content Support in Amazon CloudFront. By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape. It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum commits, or upfront fees, such that you are forcibly locked into a single vendor for a

Cache 95

Cache Latency AWS Website 95

Tim Kadlec

MAY 15, 2012

This morning, Ian Hickson emailed the WHATWG mailing list mentioning that a attribute that was currently being discussed on the list (srcset) is now added to the draft of the spec. To understand why this sucks, a little background is needed. Responsive images are a difficult beast to tame: there really isn’t a good solution for them today. As a result, some discussion started on the WHATWG mailing list months ago about what to do.

Energy 71

Energy Availability Development Design 71

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Assessments are based, not on whether the decisions made are any good, but on whether they were made in accordance with what is deemed to be an appropriate process. We assume, not only that good procedure will give rise to good outcome, but also that the ability to articulate the procedure is the key to good outcomes. -- John Kay, writing in the Financial Times A common error in both the management and governance of IT is an over-reliance on rules, process and "best practices" that portend to gi

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

It’s time for, not one, but two brand-new, up-to-date talks on the state of the art of concurrency and parallelism in C++. I’m going to put them together especially and only for C++ and Beyond 2012 , and I’ll be giving them nowhere else this year: C++ Concurrency – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard). C++ Parallelism – 2012 State of the Art (and Standard).

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Todayâ??s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS custome

Cloud 92

Cloud Development AWS Servers 92

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re: Invent. By Werner Vogels on 09 May 2012 02:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity â??

AWS 77

AWS Games Internet Internet 77

Tim Kadlec

MAY 3, 2012

If you’ve gone to a BDConf (more on the recent Orlando event very soon!), you know we keep the focus pretty tight: web design and development for beyond the desktop. No native discussion, just web. We thought it would be fun to get even more focused. So on June 4th in Minneapolis, we’ll host the first ever BDConf:focus on event and do a deep dive into responsive design: all day, all responsive.

Mobile 40

Mobile Design Code Availability 40