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In our experience, sharding at the application level is to be avoided. We implemented application level sharding a few years ago when we had 1Tb of data. We now have over 20Tb of d…

I am interested in seeing more open router firmware variants. If the open SSL debacle has thought us anything it is that more eyes on the code is better but alternative implementat…

It is an interesting concept, however perhaps it is so lo-tech that it needs no discussion.

I use SuperPutty on my Windows PC to manage many putty sessions at a time...it is a little clunky, however it is better than having putty open 5 or 10 times.

I am a member of the AMQP Working Group and the OASIS AMQP Member Section. Last month we released the AMQP 1.0 protocol. This is something that we are really passionate about. The …

While this is an interesting article, the title is a little misleading. The use of that particular technology could be used to warn people of a problem, but only after the initial …

The team behind SpringBoard ran the Difference Engine for a few sessions ( http://thedifferenceengine.eu ) which due to the lack of public sector funding is closing this year. Unli…

Myspace has been confined to the "special needs" area of the interned for quite a while, however it's a shame that this news article has come out as it's aparently in advance of an…

I prefer the subdomain method. It keeps things separate. In our case it allows me to run our custom CMS for our website and separate Wordpress instance for our blog...no interdepen…

Don't be concerned with immigration issues for a while and leave your business registration and taxation status in the UK. Sort out all the paperwork if or when you decide to settl…

Go for it! I cant comment on the salary package but it sounds like a life changing opportunity. Cease the day, fly the roost, grasp the nettle!

Ok...I will go first ;) One of our clients is using a MQ to link a fleet of 550 electric vehicles to a head office app that checks for vehicle service issues.

Are you using a message queue? Perhaps you are using something like AMQP to keep your various applications together? What sort of uses are you putting your message queue to?

This is built on Eucalyptus (www.eucalyptus.com) the open source cloud application.

AWS instances don't have persistent storage...if your server crashes you loose your data, the changes to your OS and even your IP. AWS is great, but you can't compare the AWS insta…

Seriously, after all these years aren't we past this repetitive question?

I can see so many parallels in this story and how SuperMondays.org was setup....it's interesting that the first follower is so important.