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Choose Technology Suppliers Carefully
Many years ago, Amazon chose to use Oracle database products to run the business. At the time ...
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2017 Turing Award: Dave Patterson & John Hennessy
Earlier this year, Berkeley’s Dave Patterson and Stanford’s John Hennessy won the 2017 Turing ...
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Will ML training drive massive growth in networking?
This originally came up in an earlier blog comment but it’s an interesting question and ...
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MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.2.13
It’s hard to believe that a relational database in personal use at home will ever have much of ...
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Four DB2 Code Bases?
Many years ago I worked on IBM DB2 and so I occasionally get the question, “how the heck ...
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When You Can’t Afford Not to Have Power Redundancy
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport suffered a massive power failure yesterday ...
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Top 50 Corporate Revenue
This morning, I was thinking about Apple. When I got started in this industry in the early 80s, ...
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Tensor Processing Unit
For years I’ve been saying that, as more and more workloads migrate to the cloud, the mass ...
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How Many Data Centers Needed World-Wide
Last week Fortune asked Mark Hurd, Oracle co-CEO, how Oracle was going to compete in cloud ...
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Airline Overbooking isn’t Evil
Airline overbooking isn’t evil. In fact, if done properly, it’s good for airlines, good for ...
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At Scale, Rare Events aren’t Rare
I’m a connoisseur of failure. I love reading about engineering failures of all forms and, ...
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CS Responder Trans-Oceanic Cable Layer
Laying fiber optic cables with repeaters along the ocean floor raises super-interesting ...
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KVH Industries Tour
As part of my home blog, I often describe visit to plants, factories, and ships in the ...
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AWS re:Invent 2016
Last week we held the 5th annual AWS re:Invent conference. This conference is my favorite ...
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Advice to Someone Just Entering Our Industry
This morning I’m thinking through what I’m going to say at the AWS re:Invent ...
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David Patterson Retires After 40 Years
David Patterson has had a phenomenal impact on computer architecture and computer science over ...
