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Clayton the hater 26 Jul 2013 | 10:40 pm
Clayton's weird hang-up on the H-1B sometimes leads too far, like when he quotes approvingly the following propaganda of PBS: The article points out that many of the H-1B visas are for people who are...
Untitled 16 May 2013 | 09:19 pm
At Havana summit they were giving away a paper version of Joe Arnold's "Software Defined Storage with OpenStack Swift". Very useful book for anyone dealing with Swift, I would be glad to pay the cover...
Viva la testing revolution 10 May 2013 | 01:12 am
This is not something to brag about, but apparently I managed to program computers for about 30 years without writing unit tests. Today it's recitified by adding a test to one of my projects voluntari...
I have your posix_ipc right here 23 Apr 2013 | 11:28 pm
Greg Holt posted a change to Swift's object server and replicator, which adds a counting semaphore to the server. As best I can tell, the intent is to provide a form of load control, so that no more t...
Amazon S3 breaks 2T objects 18 Apr 2013 | 10:39 pm
Techcrunch said it all: At at AWS Summit in New York today, Amazon announced that its S3 storage service now holds more than 2 trillion objects. That’s up from 1 trillion last June and 1.3 trillion i...
Facebook Open Hardware 17 Apr 2013 | 01:45 am
Continuing the Hardware at Havana theme, Facebook showed their "Open Hardware" platform. Like Google, they found it advantageous to design systems for themselves, but unlike Google, they opened the de...
Dell C5220/C5125 16 Apr 2013 | 09:12 pm
Saw a cute thing at the "Havana" OpenStack Summit: a Dell ARM prototype. It is based on C5125 module for C5220 chassis. If you go to Dell website and check their gallery, it's readily apparent how bus...
Yahoo versus Linode in datacenter networking 9 Mar 2013 | 05:24 am
I just saw a blog post today that trumpets improvements that Linode made to their datacenter networks. It looks pretty good, bandwidth is improved, etc. I would never know any better, except that a mo...
Working Remotely 27 Feb 2013 | 10:44 pm
One thing I found remarkable about the recent Yahoo flap (memo) is how Marissa Mayer was supposed to be one of the bright lights of Google, who was recruited back when Google was much smaller and pres...
Hard numbers from Wikimedia 25 Oct 2012 | 09:31 am
John threw a link to IRC that indicates that Wiki people hit 173,000,000 objects. This is 1e4 times fewer than Amazon S3 has, but 10 times more than Sina has. I heard more about Sina's performance iss...
