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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Rackspace vs. Amazon

    Rackspace vs. Amazon: “it’s not Rackspace’s goal to compete with Amazon for sheer number of developers or market revenue share. “ There’s a large segment of cloud users that want to pay for peace of mind, he said, which is where Rackspace excels. It will always remain competitive on price, but it doesn’t expect to…

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  • How to Manage 15k Databases with 4 DBAs

    That’s what I’ve been saying forever. Automation rules! Simply put, Xeround’s database apparatus isn’t a case of some watch dogs and scripts that instantiate the database. It’s an orchestra of sorts, designed to handle it all automatically so that our users won’t have to, and so that neither would our employees. We usually say in…

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  • The IPS LCD Revolution

    I definitely want one or two of these! I am now the proud owner of three awesome high resolution (2560×1440) 27″ IPS LCDs, and I paid less than a thousand dollars for all three of them. […] How is this possible? You can thank Korea. All three of these monitors were ordered from Korean eBay…

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  • Dilbert Digs Big Data

    Dilbert comic strip for 07/29/2012… It hears you!

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  • New Programming Jargon

    TGIF: New Programming Jargon. A little time waster that’s been waiting in my “to-blog” box for a some time now…

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  • The Search For Meaningful Work

    Reminded me about my recent self: One of the key components to finding long term happiness is doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, meaningful work has become increasingly more difficult to find. A couple of hundred years ago, a person could look back on a day and see the field they planted that…

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  • Instagram and Twitter

    A long article to say that Instagram is to news photographers what Twitter was to the news journalists: it’s faster,  and reaches more places, but most of it isn’t relevant, has no interest in competing with the pros. For a simple service that lets people share their photos with others from a mobile device, Instagram…

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  • PaaS on Hadoop Yarn

    PaaS on Hadoop Yarn – Idea and Prototype is looking at what’s missing to offer PaaS with Hadoop Yarn: YARN is the next generation Hadoop MapReduce architecture. It is designed to be more flexible architecturally, improve scalability, and achieve a higher resource utilization rate, among other things. Although YARN remains similar to the old Hadoop…

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  • A little chat about BYOD

    The IT Skeptic: BYOD is a great thing, and we’ll get there. If only business could change as fast as the home consumer experience eh? But it doesn’t. Stop trying to equate the two. You’re at work now, not playing. Hey, but keep asking. BYOD is important, and you have a good business case: there…

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  • Say goodbye to search and hello to BrainSpace

    Good stuff – tell me what I want to do now! What PureDiscovery really wants to do — and what it’s working on for some customers — is build interest graphs for every user within the company. Aside from determining relationships between documents, that also means determining relationships between people, and between people and documents.…

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