July 29, 2010, 9:41 am PDT  

8 item(s) containing the term "world"

WILS: Load Balancing and Ephemeral Port Exhaustion

— Understanding the relationship between SNAT and connection limitations in full proxy intermediaries. If you’ve previously delved into the world of SNAT (which is becoming increasingly important in large-scale implementations, such as those in the service provider world) you remember that SNAT essentially pro...
Jul 28 06:58:58 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

YeSQL: An Overview of the Various Query Semantics in the Post Only-SQL World

— The NoSQL movement faults the SQL query language as the source of many of the scalability issues that we face today with traditional database approach. I think that the main reason so many people have come to see SQL as the source of all evil is the fact that, traditionally, the query language was burned into the ...
Jul 27 08:17:29 pm PDT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

The World Doesn’t Care About APIs

— Bottles, birds, and packets: how the message is exchanged is less important than what the message is as long as it gets there. I heard it said the other day, regarding the OpenStack announcement, that “the world does not care about APIs.” Unpossible! How could the world not care about APIs? A...
Jul 26 07:15:24 pm PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

VMware vSphere 4.1: What’s New

— Once again we find ourselves staring at a major release of VMware infrastructure software: vSphere 4.1. It’s been a bit over a year since 4.0 dropped, with two big bugfix releases since. vSphere 4.1 adds over 150 new features and improvements, including some features that were previewed at VMworld 2009 to much ap...
Jul 12 11:05:44 pm PDT / The Lone Sysadmin»

Thoughts On Hostname Nomenclature

— There are few topics as controversial in the world of systems administration as hostname nomenclature. I'm not talking about the merits of using Disney characters versus the names of stars. I'm discussing how to structure a host's name in such a way that it requires a minimal amount of effort to decipher its purpose. I...
Jul 12 08:24:00 am PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Facebook Software Use

— This morning I came across Exploring the software behind Facebook, the World’s Largest Site. The article doesn’t introduce new data not previously reported but it’s a good summary of the software used by Facebook and the current scale of the social networking site: ·       ...
Jun 20 07:56:35 am PDT / Perspectives»

Economic Incentives Applied to Web Latency

— Last month I wrote about Solving World Problems with Economic Incentives. In that post I talked about the power of economic incentives when compared to regulatory body intervention. I’m not really against laws and regulations – the EPA, for example, has done some good work and much of what they do has improved the...
Jun 07 06:44:22 am PDT / Perspectives»

The New World Order

— Industry trends come and go. The ones that stay with us and have lasting impact are those that fundamentally change the cost equation. Public clouds clearly pass this test. The potential savings approach 10x and, in cost sensitive industries, those that move to the cloud fastest will have a substantial cost advantage ...
Jun 05 06:34:58 am PDT / Perspectives»

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My name is Catherine Liao and you're reading the latest postings of various blogs I follow. You'll notice that the topics tend to center around Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.

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