Google data center
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
in the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query Google datacenters
Tags: google
The Web
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
The Web is a platform, like a piece of paper. It does not determine what you will do with it, it challenges your imagination. Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: web
Cloud computing
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
But it’s fairly clear that the classical multi-hundred thousand square foot proprietary data center is a dinosaur of another age, like mainframes are for most organizations today Dion Hinchcliffe
Tags: cloud computing
A note on Distributed Computing
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are required because distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a different model of memory access, and take into [...]
Tags: architecture, distributed
The Mythical Bridge Engineer
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Myth: All Engineers only ever work on bridges, and are selected from a small group of people inberd to have high ethics and no capacity for corner cutting. If only software developer could be like that. Assaf Arkin
Tags: citation
A poor implementation of a bad idea
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
The only reason SOAP remains in the W3C for standardization is because all of the other forums either rejected the concept out of hand or refused to rubber-stamp a poor implementation of a bad idea. Roy Fielding
Tags: citation
Humanistic view of development
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Software is written by humans–emotional, fallible, creative, and messy–for other humans. Any attempt to treat development as robotic will end in tears. Kent Beck
Tags: agile, citation, organisation
Social network
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Whichever company gets there first, to a truly open, user-empowering, internet-turbocharging social network platform, is going to be the net’s next big winner. Tim O’reilly
Tags: citation, social network
RESTable databases
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under architecture, aside
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption. Labnotes
Tags: architecture, citation, rest
People come back to places that send them away
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
People come back to places that send them away. Dave Winner la preuve avec google
Tags: citation
