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In the A
Word On Scalability posting I tried to write down a more precise definition
of scalability than is commeonly used. There were good comments about the
definition at the posting as well as in a...
Scalability is frequently used as a magic incantation to
indicate that something is badly designed or broken. Often you hear in a
discussion but that doesnt scale as the magical word to end an argumen...
Today Shel Israel and Robert Scoble
stopped by at Amazon to present their book in our
Fishbowl series. As you can read in Shel's observations and Roberts
they appear shocked that we used a critical
vo...
Go check out the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). This is Amazon.coms Internet scale storage service available through a web service interface. S3 is another example of the Amazon Web Services miss...
Halley Suitt, now CEO of Top Ten Sources, has a way of talking me into doing things where I actually have no time for. This time it was giving her a list of my top ten weblog feeds. This is an impossi...
On the A9 Developer weblog there is an article today on he SiteInfo feature that
was until now only available when you used the A9 Toolbar. They now have developed
a Firefox extension that will give ...
I have to admit that one of the reasons for my January
Recommendations posting was to experiment with the Amazon.com
associates program. Associates earn up
to 10% of the purchase if they drive traffic...
Modeling systems has always been part of the toolkit of the computer
scientist. We often try to bring systems back to simple queuing models to
understand throughput and latency questions, and then use...
Today the Senate hearings on Net Neutrality took place. The details of the testimonies are online.
I believe that everyone who has a vested interest in seeing business and service innovation continu...
Because of my absentmindedness last year I forgot to point to another writer that has joined the public Amazon/A9 weblog family: In december Claire Giordano of opensolaris fame joined A9 as director ...
The programs for 2 conferences with mainly operating and
distributed systems contributions are online now:
1st EuroSys
Conference, April 18-21, 2006, Leuven, Belgium
3rd
Symposium on Net...
In case you didn't know; I am Dutch. If you would have heard me speak you probably would have guessed that tidbit of useless information. In the past months I have received a number of criticizing com...
I have trouble understanding when people actually listen to
podcasts. I dont mean the funny and musical ones, you could listen to those
while doing the dishes, but I mean the deep technical talks or i...
The first month of this year has been cold and rainy in Seattle but it did bring a number of surprises
in books, music and theater.
I am sure many of you have seen the announcement last week
...
I have redirected the rss & atom feeds at weblogs.cs.cornell.edu to the their new home at http://www.allthingsdistributed.com. I used a permanent redirect so I am hoping that bloglines and other aggr...
A lot of things happened in that past months that were worthwhile writing about. New distributed systems and architectural insights, great conversations, new gadgets, good books, interesting articles ...
There are two online technology essay writers who I truly enjoy reading:
Scott Berkun and
Paul Graham. Paul is probably the more
well known of the two given his
Hacker and
Painters book, but I thin...
Computer Science has this strange symbiosis with the computer industry: without the computer industry there would be no computer science and without computer science there would be no computer indust...
I am on the SAS flight from Seattle to Copenhagen, somewhere north of Iceland. I am using the onboard wireless internet service. Ironically the airplane is a Airbus 340, but the wireless service is o...
I came to Microsoft ... to build the biggest computer you can imagine, by just using components you can find at Radio Shack.
There are two hours of video interview with Jim Gray online at Channel 9 ...
On his weblog Steve Vinoski
mentions some
experiences that are too familiar for me to let simply pass. Like Steve I
have been reviewing a stack of research papers in the past 2 weeks (ICWS,
HotDep)...
I was not completely truthful in my last note; Middleware is not the last conference I will be reviewing for. I did sign up for one more. I am very happy to help out Willy Zwaenepoel on the program ...
As promised yesterday in my "Amazon.com: E-Commerce at Interplanetary Scale" talk at ETech two links to information about epidemic computing techniques:
• The History of Epidemics. Where I review ...
Yesterday I returned from my travels to India. The second half of the journey focused on activities in Bangalore, where the Amazon Development Center India has its offices. I spent some time with the...
Jeff Bezos is on stage at ETech right now where he is introducing OpenSearch to the world. OpenSearch is developed by the folks at A9 to facilitate the innovation of vertical search. It allows A9 use...
I have been in India since Saturday to promote the Amazon Development Center India in Bangalore and to talk the local engineering talent. The Bangalore center is part of our global chain of developme...
The Genie is out of the bottle: today Pat Helland will start at Amazon. Pat is a extra-ordinary architect, a great friend and in general a wonderful human being. Pat will be instrumental in helping ...
I am looking for some really smart people who would be interested in working with me at Amazon.com on very interesting, advanced distributed system problems. All of these problems are in the space of...
One great thing about Amazon.com when you come from academia is that the technical challenges remain at the bleeding edge. Amazon.com developers in reality are part of this massive research laboratory...
I had a great day yesterday sitting in the audience of the first day of the Amazon Developers conference and just listening and discussing the speakers. This was the first time in a long time that I w...
Keep an eye today on the Amazon Web Services weblog where Jeff Barr is real-time reporting on the First Amazon Developers Conference. There is a great line-up for the first day of the internal-only co...
The reason why I am thinking about how the personal statements on your weblog are interpreted by the community and by the traditional media is that recently I have accepted the position of Chief Techn...
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