All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Choosing Consistency. By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2010 07:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Amazon SimpleDB has launched today with a new set of features giving the customer more control over which consistency and concurrency models to use in their database operations.

AWS 63

AWS Latency Database Scalability 63

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For 2009, I decided to start actively reading again (something I had done very little of since high school). I managed to get through 38 books and while I’m not exactly setting a goal, I’d like to at least maintain a similar pace this year. If you just want the highlights, I’d say that Neverwhere , Replay and The Road are at the top of my list as far as fiction is concerned.

Google 40

Google 40

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I've spent a lot of time reflecting on Brad Cross' blog post on Wages. It got me thinking specifically about Machiavelli's book, The Prince. Niccolò Machiavelli made some important observations regarding the conduct of a prince, making specific recommendations for what a prince must do to maintain the integrity of a state. Among other things, he wrote about the composition of forces necessary to both defend and advance the interests of a principality.

Technology 40

Technology Technology C++ Development 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Optimizing your site’s performance doesn’t have to be very difficult. Take this site for example. Typically, I take care of optimization as part of the build process. However, for the sake of demonstration, I thought this time around I’d take care of each step by itself, using freely available tools where applicable. First off was setting expires tags and turning gzipping on.

Performance 40

Performance Cache C++ Speed 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

After a very long, drawn out design/build process, I finally decided to just get it over with and push the new design live (as anyone not reading this in their RSS reader can see). There’s a few bits of code and a little bit of styling I’ve not quite fine-tuned yet, but if I keep waiting, the design would never get put up. As it is, it’s been sitting on my computer in virtually the same state it appears now for the last month or so without being touched.

Tuning 40

Tuning Virtualization Design Code 40