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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...
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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...
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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...
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20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)... “ I never knew Google was THIS massive! ” Read More...
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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...
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Great post by Ted Neward on Google ’s Protocol Buffers ( see also my previous short comment ). ( via Stefan’s post ) Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Yes, exactly what we need… another IDL… “ protocol buffers ”. Read More...
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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...
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I am at the airport, waiting for my flight to the UK… on my way to Glastonbury 08 . Although some rain is expected again, it doesn’t seem it’s going to be as muddy as last time . (source BBC Weather ) Read More...
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The LinkedData Planet 2008 conference is now over. I think it’s the first industry conference on the Semantic Web (or at least amongst the first few). I was invited by the good folks of the New York Semantic Web Meetup Group to participate in a panel...
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I’m in New York for the LinkedData Planet conference . I am very much looking forward to it. Tim Berners-Lee is amongst the keynote speakers and there are lots of interesting talks. I am going to participate in the New York Semantic Web Meetup panel in...
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It was really great to see and spend time with Paul Watson . He was around to give a presentation at the Google Scalability conference. We took the opportunity to also invite him and talk in Microsoft . As always, Paul ’s work at the Newcastle University...
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