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Velocity: Brent Chapman @great circle, what can IT professionals learn from emergency services?
Example: a car hits a fire hydrant. Lots of agencies involved (fire dpt, ambo, police, electrical company). How do they coördinate all that? Incident Command System is the protocol used in pretty much all emergency situations (courses available here). I’ll … Continue reading
Velocity: Luiz Barroso @google, efficient energy ops
Hypothetical energy cost extrapolations, 5 years from now, hardware could be only 20-50% of the total energy costs. Efficiency defined as computing speed divided by power. Can be broken down further (computing speed / power provided to chip x power … Continue reading
Velocity: John Fowler (Sun), Innovation That Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure
John is responsible for hardware @Sun. Web is built on a new software stack (varnish, rails, memcache, hadoop, etc.) Trends: 16 cores per socket for 2009, Sun, AMD and Intel on the same track. Clock rates will remain the same. … Continue reading
Velocity: Artur Bergman
Artur works for Wikia. WoWWikia is the 2nd largest wiki around. Value of performance and reliability is around WoW: $520 MM of profit per year, 99% reliable but users expect it, so it’s really about setting expectations. Operations is about … Continue reading
Cookie crumbles
On Monday’s front page of the Financial Times one could read “Google resolve crumbles on ‘cookies’ pledge“, an interesting piece on how earlier inquiries about the role of cookies in “behavioural targeting” had been gently pushed aside after the acquisting … Continue reading
twiki is great… twiki is not so great.
To organize our internal IT information we have been using twiki. It is a very flexible tool by virtue of being a wiki and has two critical features out of the box that other wikis seem to lack: Forms and … Continue reading
