April, 2011

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years.

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The Tech Bubble, Four Months In

The Agile Manager

Earlier this year, we looked at the boom in the US tech sector and what it means for people running tech businesses and captive IT. Four months later, the tech sector has gained momentum. Buyers and sellers of tech services must deal with rising costs and tighter margins, respectively. This is a function of tech wage inflation ( Google's 10% across the board pay increase is indicative of this) and increased recruiting and retention pressures (tech employees offered career advancement with other

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Two More C&B Sessions: C++0x Memory Model (Scott) and Exceptional C++0x (me)

Sutter's Mill

Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and I are continuing to craft and announce the technical program for C++ and Beyond (C&B) 2011 , and two more sessions are now posted. All talks are brand-new material created specifically for C&B 2011. Here are short blurbs; follow the links for longer descriptions. Scott will give a great new talk on “The C++0x Memory Model and Why You Care” that will cover topics of interest to anybody who cares about concurrency and parallel programming

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Mashing Up Science - The Mendeley API Binary Battle

All Things Distributed

Two years ago when I was first introduced to Mendeley I concluded that if they executed right they could "change the face of science".

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Corporates and Start-Ups: Casual Friends, not Soul Mates

The Agile Manager

An executive of a corporate behemoth wants to shake up a troubled division. Being both impatient and aggressive, the executive hires somebody with a few start-ups under their belt - or acquires that person's current business - with the intent of having them take over the troubled unit to deliver start-up-like results. While it looks like a way to inject new strands into the corporate DNA, it may do little more than play kick the can the can on the problem.

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C++ and Beyond 2011

Sutter's Mill

I’m very much looking forward to C++ and Beyond 2011 this August, again with Scott Meyers and Andrei Alexandrescu. All of my own talks will be brand-new material never given publicly before. This year’s program will be heavily oriented toward performance (first) and C++0x (second). There are two talks announced so far: Andrei will be giving an in-depth talk on “BIG: C++ Strategies, Data Structures, and Algorithms Aimed at Scalability.” Briefly, it’s about writing hi

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Keynote at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit

Sutter's Mill

In a couple of months, I’ll be giving a keynote at the AMD Fusion Developer’s Summit , which will be held on June 13-16, 2011, in Bellevue, WA, USA. Here’s my talk’s description as it appears on the conference website: AFDS Keynote: “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft”. Herb Sutter, Microsoft Principal Architect, Native Languages.