Scalability links for January 19th
Scalability links for January 19th: Optimizing TCP Socket Across Data Centers - Intersting observation of why bandwidth sometime hits a ceiling. Also explains why organizatinos need CDNs and local datacenters closer to the end users. Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk - I made a prediction just a few days ago that AWS would do something like this. This is very cool and confirms my observation as to where the industry is heading towards. Paper: Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud - Researcher Develops Password Hacking Software for Wi-Fi Networks Using Amazon Web Services - Scary way of using the cloud. But at the same time it shows that computing power is cheaper than ever. Hadoop I/O: Sequence, Map, Set, Array, BloomMap Files - Skype's acquisition of Qik is now complete - Now who can help me remove Qik app from my Evo ? Its a terrible product for which I have no use... but came bundled with the phone and I'm stuck with it. Gang of Smart