All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am thrilled that now both Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS support resource-level permissions. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources.

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Cloud AWS Database Scalability 102

Tim Kadlec

JULY 30, 2013

Back in 2011, Brad Frost wrote a post on Support vs. Optimization. One of the (many) smart things he said was: The power of the web is its ubiquity. It is the web’s superpower, and its omnipresence is what sets it apart from native platforms. This is what excites me about the web and it’s why web technology tends to be my focus. That ubiquity, that ability to get your information to anyone with a device connected to the web, is incredibly inspiring.

Network 66

Network Technology Technology 66

The Agile Manager

JULY 30, 2013

Product management was never a formal responsibility; it just sort of happened. Early on, it was driven by what the technical wizards came up with. But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. It took the wind from development's sails: those who were still on the payroll were just happy to have kept their jobs.

Design 65

Design Innovation Mobile Software 65

Sutter's Mill

JULY 9, 2013

I don’t often link to other articles, but this one is worth reading. Why mobile web apps are slow. by Drew Crawford. … So if you are trying to figure out exactly what brand of crazy all your native developer friends are on for continuing to write the evil native applications on the cusp of the open web revolution, or whatever, then bookmark this page, make yourself a cup of coffee, clear an afternoon, find a comfy chair, and then we’ll both be ready.

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Mobile C++ Code Development 49

O'Reilly Software

JULY 24, 2013

Just a quick post on something I just discovered and found neat (I always find obscure C syntax interesting). I was trying to figure out how to use a C designated initializer, where a member was a pointer to another designated initializer. At this point, you need a compound literal. Just a quick background on C initialization: // verbosely create an array with a known size int arr [3]; arr[0] = 1; arr[1] = 2; arr[2] = 3; // => [1, 2, 3] // concisely create an array with a known size int arr [

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C++ Design 40

Speed Curve

JULY 20, 2013

You can now annotate the main graph on SpeedCurve with notes about deployments or specific performance optimizations you may have put live. Just click on the "Annotate" link at the bottom right of the main graph to start adding them and comparing the before and after performance of your website. A vertical line will be placed on the graph where ever a note has been added.

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Website Performance 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Feeling the Customer Love for AWS. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2013 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We work hard to meet our customers expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. This week at the Singapore AWS Summit we were fortunate that our customers Astro Radio from Kuala Lumpur were willing to join us on stage.

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AWS Innovation Scalability Systems 85

Alex Russell

JULY 9, 2013

There’s a palpable tension in my shoulders as I tap this out — I know already that this post will create cringe-worthy responses and name calling and all the rest. But on we plod. A friend called out to me a peculiar feature of a conference Program Committee they were serving on: that it was part of the PC’s role to keep a look out for strong minority/female speakers and encourage them to submit to the open CFP.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Programming Engineering Technology 40

Nick Desaulniers

JULY 2, 2013

If you’ve done nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide. Wrong. Nothing ever justifies giving up your human rights , especially to prove lack of wrong doing, and any government that asks you to do so is not your friend. Terrorism has become a weapon used against us by those elected to lead to keep us compliant, like blinders you’d put on a horse.

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Government 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2013

We work hard to meet our customer’s expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. This week at the Singapore AWS Summit we were fortunate that our customers Astro Radio from Kuala Lumpur were willing to join us on stage. Jayaram Gopinath Nagaraj and Kavitha Doraimaickam gave a truly electrifying presentation about how AWS has transformed their radio stations.

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AWS Innovation 78

All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re:Invent 2013. By Werner Vogels on 17 July 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers.

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AWS Strategy Scalability Cloud 78

Tim Kadlec

JULY 7, 2013

When we write about technology online, things can sound a bit black and white. Always do this, never do that. But blog posts and articles can’t cover every scenario. The author knows nothing about your team, your site, your business goals, your deadlines, the behavior of the people who visit your site or the technology they use to visit with. There are characteristics of projects that may make a prescribed solution inappropriate.

Mobile 40

Mobile Network Technology Technology 40

Speed Curve

JULY 6, 2013

A lot of sites are now using responsive design techniques to create great user experiences across mobile, tablet and desktop. Unfortunately images are often just set to 100% width with the same large image being delivered to all browsers and platforms. Picturefill was an important step in delivering responsive images and David Newton's fork now extends that approach to include WebP and SVG images in the mix you send down the pipe.

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Media Google Mobile Design 40

Alex Russell

JULY 4, 2013

This was originally drafted as response to [Jo Rabin’s blog post] discussing a meetup the W3C TAG hosted last month. For some reason, I was having difficulty adding comments there. Hi Jo, Thanks for the thoughtful commentary, and for the engaging chat at the meetup. Your post mirrors some of my own thinking about what the TAG can be good for. I can’t speak for everyone on the TAG, but like me, most of the new folks who have joined have backgrounds as web developers.

Games 40

Games Architecture Design Processing 40

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available.

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Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40