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BotchagalupeMarks for August 7th – 16:51
By John | August 10, 2009
These are my links for August 7th through August 9th:
- The Cloud Politic – How Regulation, Taxes, and National Borders are shaping the infrastructure of the cloud « LooseBolts – Whether you are talking about the Google cloud, the Microsoft cloud, Amazon Cloud, or Tom and Harry’s Cloud Emporium, each is a business that ultimately wants to make money. It never ceases to amaze me that in a perfectly solid technical or business conversation around the cloud people will begin to wax romantic and lose sight of common sense. These are very smart technical or business savvy people but for some reason the concept of the cloud has been romanticized into something almost philosophical, a belief system, something that actually takes on the wispy characteristics that the term actually conjures up.
- osscomreview: HadoopDB, Hadoop + PostgreSQL – For some time the growing number of developers who seek to leave the SQL world in favor of new approaches to data management, such as that offered by couchdb.
- Yahoo!’s PNUTS Database: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right? | High Scalability – We describe PNUTS [Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage], a massively parallel and geographically distributed database system for Yahoo!’s web applications. PNUTS provides data storage organized as hashed or ordered tables, low latency for large numbers of con-current requests including updates and queries, and novel per-record consistency guarantees. It is a hosted, centrally managed, and geographically distributed service, and utilizes automated load-balancing and failover to reduce operational complexity. The first version of the system is currently serving in production. We describe the motivation for PNUTS and the design and implementation of its table storage and replication layers, and then present experimental results.
- Inside Twitter’s Network Architecture « Data Center Knowledge – Barrett Lyon is a veteran when it comes to defending against denial of service attacks, having founded Prolexic, a leading player in defending against electronic attacks. Lyon, who is now CTO and co-founder of content distributon provider BitGravity, has created a detailed network map of Twitter’s architecture as part of an analysis of yesterday attack on social networks. Lyon and Richard Steinnon from Threat Chaos also found that Twitter’s status page (status.twitter.com) is hosted on the same server as an adult site (language warning).
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