July 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

After Glastonbury, in London at Jim’s

Glastonbury was absolutely fantastic. I really really enjoyed it. It rained on Thursday and Friday but Saturday and Sunday were gorgeous. The sun came out and allowed everyone to walk around, sit on the grass, and really enjoy the atmosphere and vibe...

Published 07-01-2008 5:50 AM by <savas:blog />

Google’s “Protocol Buffers”

Yes, exactly what we need… another IDL… “ protocol buffers ”. Read More...

Published 07-08-2008 11:41 AM by <savas:blog />

REST anti-patterns

Jim pointed me to Stefan’s article on “ REST anti-patterns ”, which I somehow missed. Very very nice indeed! I particularly liked the following note: The usual standard disclaimer applies: REST, the Web, and HTTP are not the same thing; REST could be...

Published 07-12-2008 10:59 AM by <savas:blog />

New toy on order

As those close to me know, I love photography. Unfortunately, my Canon EOS 300D Digital SLR got so wet while I was queuing at Glastonbury that it stopped working . So, I had to buy a new camera. After doing some research I got a really good deal online...

Published 07-13-2008 9:58 PM by <savas:blog />

“Cloud Services Continuum” - Great post by Robert

As I catch up with my blog feeds after having wrongly configured Outlook , which left me without updates for more than two weeks, I came across this great post by Robert of Digipede fame. Great little summary! “ The diagram to the right shows this continuum...

Published 07-13-2008 11:38 PM by <savas:blog />

Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again

I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)… - (My manager at the time:) Savas, we’d like to ask you to drive the latest technical efforts on WS-Transfer. - Eh? You do know that...

Published 07-14-2008 12:41 AM by <savas:blog />

“So You Say You Want to Kill XML...”

Great post by Ted Neward on Google ’s Protocol Buffers ( see also my previous short comment ). ( via Stefan’s post ) Read More...

Published 07-14-2008 12:19 AM by <savas:blog />

Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power

20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)... “ I never knew Google was THIS massive! ” Read More...

Published 07-14-2008 3:46 AM by <savas:blog />

Three day of Mapping and Reducing…

I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF -funded workshop on how to use Hadoop to write map-reduce computations. I already know map-reduce of course but it’s interesting to get some hands-on experience on Hadoop...

Published 07-16-2008 4:28 PM by <savas:blog />

The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop

My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop . This meeting has been getting better and better with each year. The community amazes me every time with the wonderful things that...

Published 07-18-2008 10:38 AM by <savas:blog />

“Ahead in the Cloud” - Werner Vogel’s

Werner Vogel just finished his “Ahead in the Cloud” talk here at the DISC 08 workshop . As always, very entertaining. Amazon is light years ahead of the rest of the industry in thinking about and delivering utility computing to the world. The talk was...

Published 07-18-2008 1:47 PM by <savas:blog />

Amazon’s recent S3 problems

A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3’s recent 9-hour downtime from the people at the center of it . ( via Werner Vogel’s blog ) Read More...

Published 07-26-2008 3:03 PM by <savas:blog />

Open Web Foundation

Google , BBC , Facebook , and other big names sponsor the “Open Web Foundation” . They are ignoring W3C and OASIS ! Ok… you have to pay to participate in those organizations. But IETF ???? Dare Obasanjo has some more detailed commentary on the announcement...

Published 07-26-2008 9:26 PM by <savas:blog />

Creative Commons Addin for Office 2007

When I joined Technical Computing , now part of External Research , we wanted to create an ecosystem of tools and services to support researchers worldwide. Today we announced the results of some of our efforts; there is still more going on. A tool that...

Published 07-28-2008 12:39 PM by <savas:blog />

Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle

Lee Dirks has been leading our efforts in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle. It’s been an absolutely pleasure working with Lee since he joined Technical Computing, which has now been integrated with External Research in Microsoft Research . He’s been...

Published 07-28-2008 12:14 PM by <savas:blog />

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