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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3.

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3 Traps That Cause CIOs To Make Bad Decisions

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs Often Don’t Realize That They’ve Made A Bad Decision Until It’s Too Late! How do you make decisions? We’d all like to think that we carefully weight the available evidence and then use our past experiences to make the right decision each time. However, the reality is actually quite different. As CIOs we are asked to make some very big “bet the company” types of decisions.

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The extraordinary personal value of the web: $140 billion is the tip of the iceberg

Trends in the Living Networks

How much value do you get from the web? A lot more than you pay for it. We may quibble about the cost of bandwidth and online services, and in some cases we should, but the reality is the value we get from connectivity and web-based services is massive. Earlier this year McKinsey & Co released research titled The Web’s €100 billion surplus (registration required).

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Business and IT Alignment? A Stupid Concept

A CIO's Voice

'The concept of business and IT not aligning is a foreign concept to me. Other departments such as accounting and marketing departments don’t have this mandate that they must align with the business because they do. Why is IT any different? By our very existence we are in alignment with the business. If the IT department is running off doing their own thing I think that is a failure of management to provide oversight and guidance.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory

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Video: London Stock Exchange Needs Cloud Computing

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. Dr. Jim Anderson discusses an outage that happened at the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Anderson identifies what may have caused the London Stock Exchange outage and if cloud computing could possibly help prevent this from happening again. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: [link].

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ReBoot: My Dad Got Me A Job…

A CIO's Voice

'I was at the doctor’s office the other day talking to my doctor about how his summer was going. He mentioned that his son, also a doctor, just graduated and is looking for a job. My doctor mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to some medical chiefs he knows to get his son a job. This was not the first time I heard this. A few weeks past a managing director I play golf with also mentioned how he was going to make a few calls to get his son, a recent graduate, a job.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

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We Are Officially Open for Business

Nutanix

It's official! We are open for business, after spending many tireless moments building this product and bringing it to market.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on the future of newspapers

Trends in the Living Networks

Continuing our series of conversations between fellow-futurist Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency and myself, here is our session on the future of newspapers. Here are a few notes from our conversation: * When I released my Newspaper Extinction Timeline , chronicling when newspapers would become irrelevant in each country around the world, it received a heated response. * Are we interested in news, or in paper?

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). There are some great job openings within Amazon Web Services. I will try to highlight some of those in coming weeks. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services

All Things Distributed

There are some great job openings within Amazon Web Services. I will try to highlight some of those in coming weeks. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable.

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The Dinosaurs Are Dying

Nutanix

I now feel that the beginning of the end for SAN-like storage systems is hurtling towards us.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.