January 2010
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SimpleDB Performance : 5 Steps to Achieving High...
I was recently tasked with fork-lifting ~1 billion rows from Oracle into SimpleDB. I completed this forklift in November 2009 after many attempts. To make this as efficient as possible, I worked closely with Amazon’s SimpleDB folks to troubleshoot performance problems and create new APIs. I’d like to share some recommendations and observations.
Although I have covered these...
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"The cloud" Explained for Normal People
If you are like most people in software, you have heard the term “The cloud” but have no idea what it means. If you are industrious enough to buy a book, google the term, or troll twitter for related tweets, you are likely exasperated by the shear marketing buzzword blast you encounter.
To make it easier on you, I am going to tell you what it means to me with a very specific example:
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HTML 5's Web Sockets explained
I’ve been reading a bit about HTML 5’s WebSockets lately.
First, here are some definitions:
Comet - an umbrella term referring to techniques that provide “server push” using standard browser functionality — i.e. without the aid of specialty browser plug-ins. In practice, Comet in most-often implemented via Ajax with long polling.
Long polling - (from Wikipedia)...