April, 2013

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Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB. By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, IĆ¢??m thrilled to announce that we have expanded the query capabilities of DynamoDB. We call the newest capability Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

Cloud 101
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Zombie Businesses

The Agile Manager

The Lehman bankruptcy is best known as the event that triggered a financial crisis. For many firms, it also sowed the seeds of an operating crisis. Revenues plummeted at the end of 2008. Companies retrenched by laying people off. Managers coped with smaller staffs by asking employees to perform multiple jobs and to work longer hours. With remaining employees grateful to have kept their jobs, and with the economy leveling off rather than staying in freefall, corporate profitability rebounded as e

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The Persistence of Memory

O'Reilly Software

I would like to die on Mars… Elon Musk Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist, Bloomberg Well, isn’t that forward thinking? Granted, the full quote I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact is meant to sound hopeful of his company, SpaceX. I agree that some day, humans will be buried on Mars. But is it forward thinking, enough?

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Implementing Responsive Design Workshop

Tim Kadlec

On June 14th, I’m going to teach a one-day Implementing Responsive Design workshop at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. The workshop will run the full day and will go from the core tenants of responsive design through to more advanced topics such as performance optimization, feature detection, RESS and more. We’ll cover topics from the book, as well as a loads of new stuff.

Design 40
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Basic JIT

Nick Desaulniers

Ever since I learned about Just In Time Compilation from the various Ruby VMs and JavaScript VMs, I’ve been inspired. I could tell you all about how just in time (JIT) compilation worked, and how it could give your interpreted language a speed boost. It was so cool. Well, it still is! There’s a ton of research going on around JIT compilation.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational Databases. By Werner Vogels on 12 April 2013 04:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Joins are one of the fundamental relational database query operations. It is very hard to implement the join operation efficiently as there any many unknowns in the execution of the operation.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Practical Applications of.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues. By Werner Vogels on 05 April 2013 08:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). At the end of the 80s Ceri and Widom were researching the fundamentals of integrity constraints in databases.