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It’s An Agile World

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The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. implemented with 2 engineers compared to an estimated 25 for the old system. It reminds me of my current project at my day job. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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Gnip Is On Fire

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The first version of the product was based on an architectural approach that didn’t aptly satisfy all players in the ecosystem and wasn’t flexible enough. Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering).

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Silicon Flatirons Conference: The Role of Place: Entrepreneurial Immigration, Iteration, and Innovation

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I’ll be on the first panel titled Entrepreneurial Immigration Policy with Lance Nagel (partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ Labor and Employment Practice) and Vivek Wadhwa (Senior Research Associate, Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering).

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Learning the Right Lessons from the Amazon Outage

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Your application and deployment architecture may not be ready for this. The architectural changes required to accommodate the public IaaS cloud are a good idea even if you never move the application there. Amazon (and other providers) will have more outages, and cloud servers will fail both individually and en masse.

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Will Someone Please Tell Me Exactly What a Looking Glass Can Do?

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Voxatron in the Looking Glass : this is a voxel-based engine that was developed by an indie game developer Joseph White in Tokyo. Display of 3D architectural models. Just kidding, it’s a hologram… pic.twitter.com/C8HnOgKe9Q. Gottfried Hofmann (@BlenderDiplom) July 27, 2018. link] pic.twitter.com/ZYsMwNyDda. —