Category: Technology
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Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug
Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug: Recently I was asked to give a presentation about smartphone imaging and optics at a small industry event, and given my background I was more than willing to comply. Everything you ever wanted to know… about cameras.
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Vodafone news of the day
Vodafone news of the day: The only deal that makes sense is to sell the whole of Vodafone to Verizon. That is obvious. The main people it does not make sense to are the Vodafone senior management. So I will suggest a solution for Mr Colao. The deal should be done with termination payments –…
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How do I freaking scale Oracle?
How do I freaking scale Oracle?: For the record, I’m a NoSQLer and a big data guy. After nearly 20 years of dealing with what I’ve come to refer to as “the beast” (aka Oracle), I’ve turned coat and decided I prefer solving the problem rather than mitigating it. That said, many companies I work…
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BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation
BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation: BSA: Most businesses know that using pirated software can land them in hot water, but many don’t realise that their employees could also open the door to expensive litigation via BYOD schemes, according to Business Software Alliance chair Clayton Noble. […] Some offer, for example, student licences that…
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How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic
How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic: To handle more requests there are three things you can do: produce (render) content faster, deliver (download) content faster and add more servers to handle more connections. Each of these solutions has a limit. Designing for these limits is architecting for scale. Another one…
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Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone
Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone Launches Pre-Orders: A tiny new open source drone kit made by Bitcraze is buzzing its way to market this spring, targeted at hackers and modders who want to explore droning indoors as well as out. The trio used only open source material for the project, from mechanics to hardware and code.…
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Buyout firms team up to take BMC Software private
Exclusive: Buyout firms team up to take BMC Software private – sources: Private equity firms are joining forces in the auction of BMC Software Inc, four people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, making it more likely that the business software maker will be taken private in a deal that will top $6 billion.…
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Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon: Borg is a way of efficiently parceling work across Google’s vast fleet of computer servers, and according to Wilkes, the system is so effective, it has probably saved Google the cost of building an extra data center. Yes, an entire data center. That may seem…
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It’s a VM Wasteland – A Near Optimal Packing of VMs to Machines Reduces TCO by 22%
Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation: Consolidation of multiple workloads, encapsulated in virtual machines (VMs), can significantly improve efficiency in cloud infrastructures. But consolidation also introduces contention in shared resources such as the memory hierarchy, leading to degraded VM performance. To avoid such degradation, the current practice is to not pack VMs tightly and…
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Key questions when selecting an analytic RDBMS
Key questions when selecting an analytic RDBMS: Assuming you know that you really want to manage your analytic database with a relational DBMS, the first questions you ask yourself could be: How big is your database? How big is your budget? How do you feel about appliances? How do you feel about the cloud? What…
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