4 month ago
Linkorama : Can you run your projects when you are on the run? - Whether you're running a business or you're running a project when you're on the go, don't mistake mobility for absence. When you're not there in person, you need to be more effective at being there virtually.
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Linkorama : The Long Hallway - The flexibility that comes with this organizational method gives people an opportunity to balance their work and their lives—to see daylight once in awhile or take the kids to the park, to shovel the driveway or catch a wave. And for creative people who
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5 month ago
joshua : cassandra - facebook's cross between dynamo and bigtable?
Jeremy Zawodny : the-cassandra-project - the-cassandra-project: "Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data while providing reliability at a massive scale. "
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6 month ago
nelson : Choosing BOINC projects - Very thoughtful collection of distributed computing projects
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6 month ago
nelson : cpushare.com - P2P cycle sharing. Why didn't I think of that? Note the open order book with the lack of buy orders
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7 month ago
deusx : echovar » Blog Archive » A Venezuelan Moment: The Gillmor Gang considers nationalizing Twitter - "The idea of building competitors to Twitter on the same platform, or redistributing Twitter to multiple players reminds me of the idea that New York City should be rebuilt in Ohio because it would be cheaper."
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11 month ago
Simon Willison : RubyForge: Starling - RubyForge: Starling. “Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.”
nelson : Starling - Open source release of an interesting piece of technology that Twitter has build; message queuing, lightweight
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12 month ago
Simon Willison : Eventually Consistent - Eventually Consistent. Werner Vogels explains the trade-offs involved in building scalable, highly-available data stores such as Amazon’s SimpleDB.
jcgregorio : Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed
joshua : Werner Vogels on Eventually Consistency - design considerations for distributed databases
nelson : Eventually Consistent - Werner breaks down some distributed system design choices
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Amazon SimpleDB 101 - This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.
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12 month ago
deusx : Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us - "beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service."
factoryjoe : Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us - beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service. Its interface is generic, but is intended for use in reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most time-consuming tasks asynchronously.
Simon Willison : Beanstalkd - Beanstalkd. This is the light-weight cross-language queue I’ve been waiting for. Similar to Starling but your workers don’t need to poll for new jobs; you can call the blocking “reserve” call instead.
bmilleare : Beanstalkd - Nice queuing daemon - beats using Amazon SQS IMO
joshua : Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us - beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service. Its interface is generic, but was originally designed for reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running most time-consuming tasks asynchronously.
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13 month ago
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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15 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop - Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop: "In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project."
nelson : Hadoop interview - Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know
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19 month ago
nelson : MogileFS - distributed filesystem from the brilliant Brad Fitzpatrick
Rod Begbie : MogileFS - Open-source distributed filesystem from Brad Fitzpatrick. Looks to be as wicked-cool and game-changing as memcached. [via] #
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32 month ago
kellan : Brian McCallister: "So, ruby threads have issues. Multiprocessing, on the other hand, works great." - This is the same basic structure the Odeo crawler uses (though thats a 3-tier system). The wisdom of Unix rears its hoary head once again. (and dRB is just neat!) #
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33 month ago
kellan : JavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3 - Adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself. #
Simon Willison : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 - JS apps hosted on S3 could read and write to the store.
Paul Hammond : JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3 » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD - All of this adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself.
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36 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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38 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : Learning from THE WEB - Adam Bosworth tells us the Web has much to teach us about managing and modeling distributed data. It's time we began listening
Linkorama : Learning from the Web - The Web has much to teach us about managing and modeling distributed data. It's time we began listening.
jcgregorio : ACM Queue - Learning from THE WEB - The Web has taught us many lessons about distributed computing, but some of the most important ones have yet to fully take hold. - I don't know if I ever blogged this.
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Managing Disributed Workers - This year, there are 19.5 million "distributed workers." That's up from 10.9 million in 2000. But how do you manage all those workers beavering away in places and at times you can't control?
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43 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : yadis - yadis: yet another distributed identity system
erikbenson : yadis: yet another distributed identity system - this one actually looks pretty interesting. it's simple, smart, and admits what it's not doing, but they seem like the right things not to do.
deusx : yadis: yet another distributed identity system - "This is yet another distributed identity system, but one that's actually distributed and doesn't entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Captcha as distributed handwriting recognition systems - "Distributed CPU cycles are worthless unless you're SETI or Pixar. Distributed brain cycles... now that's a much more intriguing proposition."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome collaborative blast from the past: The ESP Game - Every two months or so I lose the URL for this and want to find it again. Two players who have never met try to guess words to describe a picture. If they match they get points, and the image gains useful metadata... Awesome stuff...
cobra libre : The ESP Game: Labeling the Web - Play along with complete strangers and be amazed by their meager vocabularies! #
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