Lucasfilm: The Real Magic is in the Data Center | High Scalability (11)
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General Chicken via High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. shared by 5 people Kevin Clark, director of IT operations for Lucasfilm, discusses how their data center works: * Linux-based platform, SUSE (looking to change), and a lot of proprietary open source applications for content creation. * 4,500-processor render farm in the datacenter. Workstations are used off hours. * Developed their own proprietary scheduler to schedule their 5,500 available processors. * Render nodes, ...
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Duncan said:
LucasFilm uses SuSE Linux for their data center, but they're looking to change? Why?
Explaining REST to Damien Katz (64)
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Damien Katz recently caused a stir on a bunch of the blogs I read with his post entitled REST, I just don't get it where he wrote As the guy who created CouchDB, I should be a big cheerleader for RESTful architectures. But the truth is, I just don't get it. For CouchDB, REST makes absolutely insanely perfect sense. Read a document, edit, put the document back. Beautiful. But for most applications, enterprise or not, ...
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afroginthevalley said:
Amen bro.
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mattw said:
check it out, YaRvSd arises. (Yet another rest v SOAP debate).
The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces - ReadWriteWeb (9)
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Web 2.0 has brought many wonderful innovations and ideas to the Internet. We can no longer imagine the web without a social dimension, and we can no longer imagine an online world that is read-only - it is now a read/write web full of user-generated content. But there is another fairly recent innovation, which might have just as profound implications. We're speaking of the contextual user interface. Even five years ago we lived in the ...
When Google disowns you | Software as Services | ZDNet.com (4)
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SaaS providers are still learning the hard way that If you trade in dependency, you have to earn trust: “[Clients of] on-demand application providers … depend on them for everyday functions and operations, and therefore trust is paramount.” Yesterday, in When Google Owns You, Chris Brogan posted about a colleague who came back from lunch on Monday to find he was locked out of all his Google resources because the provider had disabled his account. ...
Does Creative Commons Work? Check Out the New Case Studies Database (1)
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The Creative Commons Foundation launched a much-needed database of case studies today, highlighting CC licensed content from around the world. Creative Commons licenses are built on top of international copyright law but let content producers offer their work with more refined permissioning for re-use than the de facto "it's mine don't touch it" sentiment of standard copyright. When working to advance a new concept or technology, few things are as important as showcasing proven, inspiring ...
Self-Publish Your Own Magazine With MagCloud (6)
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Have you every wanted to run your own magazine, but never had enough money or a large enough audience to make it worthwhile? Well, if there's one thing that the self-publishing industry can cater to, it's the long tail. Now, thanks to a startup called MagCloud, even the smallest of ventures can produce their own, professional, full-color magazine and without the costs normally associated with hiring traditional publishing companies. About MagCloud MagCloud is another project ...
Are Machine-Learned Models Prone to Catastrophic Errors? (5)
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A couple of days ago I had coffee with Peter Norvig. Peter is currently Director of Research at Google. For several years until recently, he was the Director of Search Quality -- the key man at Google responsible for the quality of their search results. Peter also is an ACM Fellow and co-author of the best-selling AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. As such, Peter's insights into search are truly extraordinary. I have known ...
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Jason said:
interesting article on google's attitude towards machine learning
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skottk said:
Anand discusses the Black Swan and its effect on search engine accuracy, contending that current search engine metrics only work in Mediocristan. We live in Extremistan, so search engine accuracy is subject to catastrophic errors when the unexpected comes to dominate.
Google I/O session videos posted with slides (1)
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Posted by Pete Koomen, Google App Engine Team On May 28th and 29th the Google Developer Team hosted Google I/O, a developer gathering in San Francisco. For anyone who wasn't able to join us in person, you can now now catch videos of more than 70 talks, along with slides from each of the presentations, online. Among these are some great sessions from members of the Google App Engine Engineering team: Best Practices - Building ...
Vertebra: EngineYard's Next Generation Cloud Computing Platform (1)
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Presentation by Martin Fowler and Jim Webber: "Does My Bus Look Big in This?" (1)
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In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, ThoughtWorks' Chief Scientist Martin Fowler and Global Head of Architecture Jim Webber share their views of the typical corporate ESB, which in their opinion has grown too fat for its own good. Martin and Jim suggest the Web's architecture as a possible and more light-weight alternative, in line with their preference for agile approaches. By Stefan Tilkov
