• Apple Quietly Builds Its Prineville Data Center

  What's Apple building in Prineville, Oregon? Here's a closer look at the progress on their new data center to support iTunes and the iCloud (with photos), as well as clues about the company's future expansion plans.

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• First Look: Facebook's Oregon Cold Storage Facility

  Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage.

• Interview With Google's Ilya Grigorik On His New Book: High Performance Browser Networking

  If you are Google you don't just complain about performance on the web, you do something about it. Doing something about web performance is the job of one  Ilya Grigorik , Developer Advocate, Make the Web Fast at Google, and author of a great new book: High Performance Browser Networking: What…

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• R plotting package ggplot2 ported to Python

  Those who use the ggplot2 package in R and do everything else in Python will appreciate this Python port of …

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