THEME: Data Integrity and Availability:
The Challenge of Scale for Modern Storage Systems


The May theme highlights the design trade-offs and choices for dealing with real-world issues in modern storage system architectures.
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Interaction Beyond the Keyboard


Consumers are increasingly seeking alternatives to the keyboard and mouse for easier-to-use and more intuitive ways to explore communications and access information.
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The Linked Data Strategy
for Global Identity


Identity at Web scale is tricky. Is Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for using HTTP URIs to identify everything, including real-world entities and intangible concepts, the answer?.
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Enabling Social Interactions
Off the Grid


The network services needed to enable effective performance in proximity-based applications have yet to catch up -- especially for those who want to go off the grid.

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Hot Chips 23


The annual Hot Chips symposium has become a bellwether of computer architectural trends, and 2011 was clearly the year of many-core and many-thread processors.
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INTERVIEW

Alan Shalloway

Alan Shalloway discusses scaling agile with Lean and Kanban in this interview from InfoQ.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE PODCAST

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Project Asset Portability

Source code makes up only a small part of a system's assets; we also have specs, design diagrams, build rules, version history, documentation, regression tests, and more. Chances are you dread even the thought of changing the tools you use.

BLOGS

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