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<description>Links relating to Loosely Coupled topics of interest, such as on-demand, Web 2.0, SOA and stories about better ways of achieving productive business automation</description>
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<title>The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars</title>
<link>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/20/the-tumblr-architecture-yahoo-bought-for-a-cool-billion-doll.html</link>
<description>Tumblr operates at surprisingly huge scales: 500 million page views a day, a peak rate of ~40k requests per second, ~3TB of new data to store a day, all running on 1000  servers.</description>
<category>cloud</category>
<category>infrastructure</category>
<category>scale</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The One-Person Product</title>
<link>http://www.marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product</link>
<description>WordPress and Movable Type were where people went if they had the patience and writing output to maintain a traditional blog, Facebook was where you went to define yourself by schools and checkboxes, and Tumblr was where you went to make your own identity and express your creativity.</description>
<category>platform</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game</title>
<link>http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2013/05/16/aws-redshift-how-amazon-changed-the-game/</link>
<description>Having vanilla SQL along with a familiar data model, and the added speed of a system built for these types of queries is probably justification enough to pick this over Hadoop Hive if BI is what you're after</description>
<category>analytics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>IBM's potential x86 server sale to Lenovo highlights oncoming train</title>
<link>http://www.zdnet.com/ibms-potential-x86-server-sale-to-lenovo-highlights-oncoming-train-7000014273/</link>
<description>In the future server clusters will be more like wheat fields. You grow the wheat, reap and sow, eat and replant the seeds. There's no attachment</description>
<category>commodity</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>88 Acres: How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future </title>
<link>http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/88acres/88-acres-how-microsoft-quietly-built-the-city-of-the-future-chapter-5.aspx</link>
<description>&quot;Buildings are still that brick phone. We want to get buildings to where phones are.&quot; Microsoft's campus went from bricks to brains, and Smith believes all commercial buildings can follow suit.</description>
<category>cloud</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work</title>
<link>http://gigaom.com/2013/03/17/uber-data-darwinism-and-the-future-of-work/</link>
<description>What are the labor laws in a world where workforce is on demand? And an even bigger question is how are we as a society going to create rules, when data, feedback and, most importantly, reputation are part an always-shifting equation? </description>
<category>reputation</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bad luck, HP and Dell. Rackspace is stroking its OWN cloud hardness</title>
<link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/18/rackspace_server_fleet_open_compute/</link>
<description>You homogenise the data centre as much as you can because homogeneity in the data centre is a good thing, you want fewer moving parts in your data centre design and operations, and this is one of the means of getting there. And one of the beautiful things about Open Compute is that we remove things from the servers that we don't need.</description>
<category>Open+Compute</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/</link>
<description>the switches that were supposed to route backup power into the facility weren't properly designed for Amazon's world, where downtime like this can never happen</description>
<category>amazon</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Profile of the Former Apple Engineers Who Designed the Nest Smart Thermostat</title>
<link>http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/511086/how-nests-control-freaks-reinvented-the-thermostat/</link>
<description>The HVAC industry, a sector as unexciting as the thermostats it sold, was astonished by the fresh ideas behind the device, which learned from its owners' behavior and could be controlled with a polished mobile app. </description>
<category>smart+device</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/mf-clayton-christensen-wants-to-transform-capitalism/all/</link>
<description>Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. </description>
<category>economy</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bits or pieces?: Why one size never fits all</title>
<link>http://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/01/why-one-size-never-fits-all.html</link>
<description>the supplier has to strive to be more efficient with those linear, cost of doing business activities whilst simultaneously differentiate with those more chaotic activities. The supplier has to be both efficient and &quot;innovative&quot; (as in creation of new activities).

The fiendish part comes into play when you think about how do you manage this spectrum of chaotic to linear.</description>
<category>management</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>CES 2013: Nvidia Grid servers might not be as flashy, but they're powerful</title>
<link>http://www.zdnet.com/ces-2013-nvidia-grid-servers-might-not-be-as-flashy-but-theyre-powerful-7000009439/</link>
<description>Nvidia wants to make gaming as easy as streaming a movie on Netflix or listening to music on Spotify.</description>
<category>gaming</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Mary Meeker 2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update</title>
<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meeker-2012-internet-trends-year-end-update-2012-12</link>
<description>a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with interest in technology.</description>
<category>economy</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/</link>
<description>With Spanner, Google can offer a web service to a worldwide audience, but still ensure that something happening on the service in one part of the world doesn't contradict what's happening in another.</description>
<category>global</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>As Pay-Per-Click Ad Costs Rise, Small Businesses Search for Alternatives</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/business/smallbusiness/as-pay-per-click-ad-costs-rise-small-businesses-search-for-alternatives.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;</link>
<description>In March 2011, Mr. Telford started blogging through HubSpot about topics like where to find the best fishing holes, and despite fears of a devastating loss of traffic, he reduced his pay-per-click budget to $100,000. By the beginning of 2012, some six months after he began blogging roughly five times a week, his organic traffic was up 91 percent over the previous year. And the number of conversions, or visitors who took an action on the site, had increased 37 percent. Mr. Telford was so encouraged that he cut his pay-per-click budget again, to $33,000.</description>
<category>context</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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