• In Memory: Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds!

  This is an article published last year, but as today is Grace Hopper's birthday I thought it would be a good time to share again an amazing talk from this amazing woman. Computing pioneer Grace Hopper , inventor of the compiler , searched for a concrete way to create an intuitive understanding…

• Site Moves from PHP to Facebook's HipHop, Now Pages Load in .6 Seconds Instead of Five

  If you code in PHP have you ever wondered about moving to Facebook's HipHop JIT Virtual Machine for PHP ? With HipHop Facebook achieved over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption compared to Zend PHP 5.2 engine + APC. But will HipHop really work…

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• AWS Marketplace - New Management Portal for ISVs & VARs

  The AWS Marketplace provides an easy way for sellers (ISVs / Independent Software Vendors and VARs / Value Added Resellers) to market and sell their software to developers and IT professionals. Today we are introducing a new AWS Marketplace Management...