All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. By Werner Vogels on 18 May 2010 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 19, 2010

Please join me on 26 May for a webinar on Activist IT Investing. An ounce of good governance is worth a pound of project rescue. Agile practices, with their emphasis on transparency, business alignment and technical completion, are enablers of better IT governance. But all the transparency and alignment in the world isn't going to do us any good if we're not equipped to pay attention and act on it.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 11, 2010

Like it’s older brother YSlow, Page Speed , released by Google in in mid-2009, is primarily a tool to audit and analyze the performance of your site. However a closer looks shows that there is in fact a lot more that Page Speed can do. What Does It Test. Page Speed analyzes the performance of a page based on a set of 26 rules (as of version 1.7) that Google has documented.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. But this is no longer the case. Today, you can buy 8,000 megabytes (a.k.a. 8 gigabytes) for $1. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand.

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