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  1. Scalability porn (SFW). Real time meter for the number of ads being served by doubleclick. Amazing. A constant ~390,000 impressions a second are being served and 25 trillion since 1996. Thanks to Mike Rhoads for title idea.
  2. Scalability? Don't worry. Application complexity? Worry by Joe McKendrick. The next challenge on enterprise agendas: application complexity. This is something that lots of hardware — whether from the cloud or internal data center — cannot fix
  3. Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson talked about how the iPad was a denial of service attack on UPS delivery schedules. UPS trucks were filled with iPads.
  4. Cassandra: Fact vs fiction. Jonathan Ellies puts the beatdown on Cassandra misinformation. Don't you dare say Cassandra can't work across datacenters!
  5. JIT'd code calling conventions. Cliff Click Jr shows how Java’s calling convention can match compiled C code in speed, but allows for the flexibility of calling (code,slow) non-JIT'd code. Some assembly code required.
  6. Stonebraker on CAP Theorem and Databases. James Hamilton: Don’t throw full consistency out too early. For many applications, it is both affordable and helps reduce application implementation errors.


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