All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 9, 2010

One of the more hotly debated subjects in the recent debate on financial services reform has been the reintroduction of Glass-Stegall. Enacted in 1933, the intent was in part to prevent banks from financing speculative investments with money obtained through deposit and lending. Because of the importance of commercial banking to the stability of the economy (and, arguably, society), it was deemed unacceptable to make it easy for a bank to take imprudent risks with money for which has a stewardsh

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 12, 2010

This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “ Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads ,” is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: … Active objects dramatically improve our ability to reason about our thread’s code and operation by giving us higher-level abstractions and idioms that raise the semantic level of our program and let us express our intent more directly.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 12, 2010

One of the biggest keys to improving the load time of your site is minimizing the number of HTTP requests. There’s a lot of overhead involved with each request, and many requests can very quickly slow down your site. One great way to eliminate extra requests is to use data URIs instead of images. If you want the nitty-gritty on what data URIs are, and how to use them, there are a few excellent posts by Stoyan Stefanov and Nicholas Zakas that walk you through the details.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 7, 2010

A short week ago (June 30th), my wife and I were lucky enough to welcome our second healthy baby girl into the world. Just like her big sister, Jessica Claire weighed in at a healthy 8 lbs 15 oz. Her big sister, thankfully, thinks Jessica is at least somewhat interesting so far and likes to come and “talk” to her. Both girls, as well as their mother, are doing well (if not a bit tired).

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