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CS Responder Trans-Oceanic Cable Layer
Laying fiber optic cables with repeaters along the ocean floor raises super-interesting ...
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KVH Industries Tour
As part of my home blog, I often describe visit to plants, factories, and ships in the ...
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AWS re:Invent 2016
Last week we held the 5th annual AWS re:Invent conference. This conference is my favorite ...
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Advice to Someone Just Entering Our Industry
This morning I’m thinking through what I’m going to say at the AWS re:Invent ...
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David Patterson Retires After 40 Years
David Patterson has had a phenomenal impact on computer architecture and computer science over ...
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A Decade of Innovation
March 14, 2006 was the beginning of a new era in computing. That was the day that Amazon Web ...
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Everspan Optical Cold Storage
Optical Archive Inc. was a startup founded by Frank Frankovsky and Gio Coglitore. I first met ...
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Volkswagen Emissions Fiasco
I’m an avid reader of engineering disasters since one of my primary roles in my day job is to ...
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VPC NAT gateways : transactional uniqueness at scale
This is a guest blog post on Perspectives from Colm MacCarthaigh, a senior engineer on the ...
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ARM Server Market
Microservers and the motivations for microservers have been around for years. I first blogged ...
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Data Center Power & Water Consumption
I’m Interested in data center resource consumption in general and power is a significant ...
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Flash Storage Failure Rates From A Large Population
I love real data. Real data is so much better than speculation and, what I’ve learned ...
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2014 ACM Turing Award
Academic researchers work on problems they believe to be interesting and then publish their ...
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Greenpeace, Renewable Energy, and Data Centers
Greenpeace has focused on many issues of great import over the years. I like whales, don’t like ...
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The Return to the Cloud
Zynga is often in the news because gaming is hot and Zynga has been, and continues to be, a ...
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50 Years of Moore’s Law: IEEE Spectrum Report
IEEE Spectrum recently published a special report titled 50 Years of Moore’s Law. Spectrum, ...