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HTTP FTW
I was reading “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet” today and a good response on gigaom. To a number of people, “the web” = HTTP. And HTTP as a protocol on the Internets has clearly won. The fun thing to notice is that “the web” to Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff is just…
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The “machine” needs to die
I was reading this. The “computer machine” as our base unit of work is a shitty unit. What I typically want is – Agility and flexibility – Performance and scale – Business continuity and taking a resource pricing point of view for dev, test, staging and DR. – Business and security best practices baked into…
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Oracle and OpenSolaris: A Kernel of Truth
@nevali on Twitter asked a question that we’ve heard from many customers, so I’m writing a response to everyone, though none of you need to worry. His question is, “As a long time Open Solaris stalwart, I do wonder what @Joyent’s perspective on the post-Oracle-takeover world is.” In many ways, we’re happy to have seen…
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Yahoo Post: “Multi-Core HTTP Server with NodeJS”
The Yahoo! Developer Blog has a nice post about node.js on how they’re running node.js A good comment on news ycombinator: Node.js lets you write server applications in a server container that can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections in a loosely typed language like Javascript which lets you code faster. It uses the…
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EMC bought Greenplum
EMC said today that it will acquire private data warehousing company Greenplum in an all-cash transaction, though the terms of the deal were not released. It said that Greenplum will “form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.” It’s no secret that digital data is on the rise,…
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On Solaris
Over the years that I’ve been developing on unix platforms I’ve come in contact with quite a few… Linux (from 2.2 upwards), FreeBSD (version 4 upwards), Solaris (8, 9, 10 on both SPARC and x86), OS X, AIX, HPUX and even VMS. Even though I’ve come into contact with these I’ve not really gotten to…