My question is what are the alternatives to AWS from a developer perspective, and when might they be useful? However I will digress into a little history to frame the discussion. There are really two separate threads of development in cloud architectures, the one I care about is how to build applications on top of public cloud infrastructure, the other is about how to build cloud infrastructure itself.
Actress and activist Darryl Hannah was arrested this week in Washington D.C during a protest against extending TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oilsands crude from Alberta through six U.S. states to refineries in Texas. On Wednesday, Hannah appeared on CBC's Power & Politics to debate Alykhan Velshi, founder of Ethicaloil.org, a website devoted to defending Canada's oil industry. During the debate, Hannah made claims about the oilsands, some of which CBC News investigated:
I’d like to tell you that he travels with an entourage, that he’s unapproachable, that you play by his rules. But I’ve never met a celebrity so honest, so unguarded, so willing to go on the record as Mark Cuban. He’s got no agenda, he’s just being him. Maybe you know him as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA champs. Maybe you saw him on “Dancing With The Stars”.
Google searching this time uncovered something not immediately disclosed by Spotify: the application employs built-in peer-to-peer networking technology to share streaming music from its cache on my computer with other Spotify users who want the same tunes, presumably taking the load off Spotify’s own servers. There’s almost no mention of this P2P functionality on Spotify’s own site. And no way to throttle or turn off the upstream P2P use in either the free or paid version which, probably, is a key part of Spotify’s business and technology model.
When marine biologist Roger Hanlon captured the first scene in this video he started screaming. (If you need to see it again, here's the raw footage.) Hanlon, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, studies camouflage in cephalopods--squid, cuttlefish and octopus. They are masters of optical illusion. These are some of Hanlon's top video picks of sea creatures via sciencefriday.com
To limit the connection speed on your Mac to a 56k modem for testing your website loading speed, pop this into terminal: via bencollier.net
Germany was all in a lather to shut down its nuclear reactors after the disaster at Fukushima panicked the country’s leaders. What if a similar tsunami and earthquake hit Germany? Nevermind that Germany, unlike Japan, isn’t located on an ocean coastline prone to tsunamis. The point was to make a public show of devotion to alternatives (even if that might mean coal), and please Euro envirozealots. So Berlin declared that it would shut down eight of its 17 reactors immediately, and the rest within a decade or so.
So, what is GitHub Flow? Anything in the master branch is deployable To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes) Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master Once it is merged and pushed to ‘master’, you can and should deploy immediately via scottchacon.
FlyJSONP is a small JavaScript library, 2.38KB (1.13KB gzipped), that allows you to do cross-domain GET and POST requests with remote services that support JSONP, and get a JSON response. via alotaiba.github.com
Last night over 14 months after the Flash Crash, US regulators finally sent subpoenas to HFT firms. In light of that and the games that were played last week, I offer more insights into HFT from my friends at Nanex, which supports what our HeatSeeker saw as the quants had their way with the markets to the detrement of all investor classes: On Friday, Aug 5, 2011, we processed 1 trillion bytes of data for all U.