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Reinventing Rackspace: Agile-techture - Nimble Cloud Engineering
Wayne Walls discusses how Rackspace does cloud based on OpenStack, touching: open source, cloud on cloud, continuous delivery, and open API.
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Lean Data Architecture: Minimize Investment, Maximize Value
Manvir Singh Grewal and Brandon Byars propose a business intelligence workflow along with Lean principles and practices for implementing a data warehouse and reporting capability.
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Big Data Problems in Monitoring at eBay
Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein discuss 4 aspects encountered at eBay when dealing with monitoring data: reduction of data entropy, robust data distribution, metric extraction, efficient storage.
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Big Data, Small Computers
Cliff Click discusses RAIN, H2O, JMM, Parallel Computation, Fork/Joins in the context of performing big data analysis on tons of commodity hardware.
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Building and Delivering Next Generation Developer Services Using Private Cloud Infrastructure
Chris Pinkham explains how to create an automated scalable self-service infrastructure based on principles used by Amazon to build their cloud services.
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Facebook News Feed: Social Data at Scale
Serkan Piantino discusses news feeds at Facebook: the basics, infrastructure used, how feed data is stored, and Centrifuge – a storage solution.
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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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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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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.
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Saving the World (from|with) Big Data
Bruce Durling discusses the impact of cloud computing on the climate and what can be done to reduce the amount of CO2 generated by data centers in order to process big data.