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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We caution all readers to review the source code of each test when interpreting the plaintext numbers.

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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

There are several technical signs of a well-run business and we are going to review them in this article. Keeping operating systems up to date, adding anti-virus and anti-malware software, and installing additional security measures are equally important. Load balancing is an essential feature for maintaining network performance.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Johan proposes a framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. and also minimizes performance degradation due to server virtualization Examples : Virsto , OpenStack Cinder.

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data. We dive right in with the EC2 JSON test results, but please read to the end where we include important notes about what has changed since last week. First up is data from the EC2 m1.large large instances.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Contents: Layer 1: the software-defined datacenter. Layer 3: deploying code. Software Defined Datacenterâ??

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

eranki.tumblr.com

If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. It’s almost a way of randomly tracing your code. If you can afford to push code through the infrequent code paths more often it’ll save some headaches.