Category: Technology
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Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps
Don’t panic! Here’s how to quickly scale your mobile apps:
We dubbed it “our Christmas,” the day when all our good engineering deeds would pay off and we’d be rewarded with a bounty of happy active users for our mobile app, Avocado.
Nice one, if your mobile app is growing like crazy.… Continued
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HP Pins Big Hopes on Today’s Launch of Project Moonshot
HP Pins Big Hopes on Today’s Launch of Project Moonshot:
When the definitive story looking back on the effort to turn around the flailing technology giant Hewlett-Packard is written, today may be seen as a turning point, perhaps for the good, perhaps not so good.… Continued
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MySQL and the forks in the road
MySQL and the forks in the road:
At the beginning of 2008 Sun Microsystems purchased MySQL AB, and ever since then there have been divisions in the ecosystem. As with any software community or ecosystem, where there are divisions there are usually forks, both in the community and the software itself.… Continued
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When Will SSD Have Same Price as HDD
When Will SSD Have Same Price as HDD:
The retail price for 256GB and 512GB SSDs has been dropping at a linear rate since 2010. In comparison, HDD pricing and new technology introductions have been stagnant. The HDD industry’s highest capacity in a 2.5″ 2-disk configuration has been the same 1TB for the last 3+ years.… Continued
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How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files
How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail.… Continued
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Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data
Meet DSSD, Andy Bechtolsheim’s secret chip startup for big data:
My sources tell me the startup is building a new type of chip — they said it’s really a module, not a chip — that combines a small amount of processing power with a lot of densely-packed memory.… Continued
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The Consistency Alphabet Soup
The Consistency Alphabet Soup:
It seems that newcomers to distributed systems are often confused by the various definitions of the C-word. I want to go over them to draw a distinction that is often overlooked, without getting into the tired old arguments around eventual consistency.… Continued
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Samsung, Mozilla and Google Browser News
Samsung and Mozilla collaborating on ‘next generation’ Android browser engine:
Mozilla and Samsung have announced a partnership to build a new web browser engine for ARM devices and Android, Servo. Mozilla says the new engine will take advantage of “tomorrow’s faster, multi-core” computing architectures, casting aside “old assumptions” about how a browser engine should work.… Continued