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Why You Won't Hear the Word "Cloud" on Wall Street
Ari Zilka informs on the cloud tools and process changes needed to take place for the financial and banking institutions to become interested in the technologies cloud computing has to offer.
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Application Delivery in the Cloud
Alex Gosse presents the current trend in application delivery, referring to cloud computing, its adoption and DevOps tools used in such environments.
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Understanding Indexing Without Needing to Understand Data Structures
Zardosht Kasheff suggest using 3 rules for indexing SQL databases: Retrieve less data, Avoid point queries, and Avoid sorting.
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Building Cloud Services with Riak
Andy Gross reports on how Basho used Riak and Erlang to build their cloud storage service.
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Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing
Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.
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Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It
Nathan Marz outlines several sources of complexity introduced in data systems - Lack of human fault-tolerance, Conflation of data and queries, Schemas done wrong - and what can be done to avoid them.
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The Startup Hangover: Supporting 15M Users
Phil Calçado presents SoundCloud’s approach to dealing with scalability issues when their user number grew beyond what they initially could support by creating services in various languages.
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MongoDB - Born in the Cloud
Ross Lawley introduces MongoDB, explaining why it is a good solution for cloud deployment.
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The Brightbox Cloud Story: Building a Resilient Cloud Infrastructure from Scratch
Jeremy Jarvis shares his experience building a IaaS cloud and some of the lessons learned along the way.
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Defining Clouds and When to Use Them
Paul Weiss introduces cloud computing and its various models, comparing them with virtualization, then overviews Eucalyptus and compares it with AWS.
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Sweden's Next Top Data Model
Ian Plosker explains why a data model needs to follow the query patterns when using a NoSQL storage solution.
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Building Cloud Software–It's Big but It's Not All Fluffy
Andy Britcliffe shares some lessons learned building software for the cloud, along with advice on architecture, technologies and the need for vendor support.