All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 30, 2013

'Speed of development, scalability, and simplicity of management are among the critical needs of mobile developers. With the proliferation of mobile devices and users, and small agile teams that are tasked with building successful mobile apps that can grow from 100 users to 1 million users in a few days, scalability of the underlying infrastructure and simplicity of management are more important than ever.

Mobile 94

Mobile Games Infrastructure Scalability 94

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The word "governance" is misused in IT, particularly in software development. There are two popular misconceptions. One is that it consists of a steering committee of senior executives with oversight responsibility for delivery; it's responsibilities are largely super-management tasks. The other is that it is primarily concerned with compliance with protocols, procedures or regulations, such as ITIL or Sarbanes-Oxley or even coding and architectural standards.

Government 58

Government Strategy Technology Technology 58

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 14, 2013

New features: Share your dashboard via a private url. Find the link on the "account" page. During site setup you can now add a user/pass for developments sites using basic authentication. On the individual test pages below the waterfall are links to the underlying WebPagetest waterfall and ability to export a HAR file.

Testing 40

Testing Development 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

'Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale , the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. In what seems almost a previous life by now Thorsten was one of the top young professors in Distributed Systems and I had the great pleasure of working with him at Cornell in the early 90''s. What set Thorsten aside from so many other system research academics was his desire to build practical, working systems, a path that I followed as well.

Network 86

Network Latency Operating System Speed 86

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 4, 2013

'The anonymity routing network Tor is frequently in the news these days, which makes it a good case to read up on the fascinating technologies behind it. Tor stands for The Onion Router as its technology is based on the onion routing principles. These principles were first described by Goldschlag, et al., from the Naval Research Lab, in their 1996 paper on Hiding Routing Information.

Network 75

Network Technology Technology Systems 75

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 7, 2013

SpeedCurve is now live! To mark the occasion I took the day off work and Helena & Bruno helped send out the launch emails. All done while stuffing our faces with cake at Vevo cafe in Titirangi, Auckland. We watched the stats explode and 3 people signed up for subscriptions before we finished our hot chocolates. Start how you intend to continue I say!

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 7, 2013

See how powerful the SpeedCurve dashboard is for digging into your website's front-end performance. Let me know which parts of the dashboard you'd like to learn more about.

Website 40

Website Performance 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 10, 2013

'I am very excited to announce AWS Activate , a program designed to provide startups with the resources they need to build applications on AWS. Startups will forever be a very important customer segment of AWS. They were among our first customers and along the way some amazing businesses have been built by these startups, many of which running for 100% on AWS.

AWS 118

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Programming 118