• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

  I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized database and needed to start the transition to a portfolio of specialized distributed systems. This has been an interesting experience: we…

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• The Year in Downtime: The Top 10 Outages of 2013

  There were wide range of causes for data center downtime in 2013. The year's major outages covered the spectrum, affecting clouds, companies, payment networks and governments at the federal, state and local level. Here's our list of the Top 10 outages of 2013.

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• AFCOM Expands Conference Schedule, Adding Regional Events

  AFCOM, the industry association for data center professionals, is expanding its conference schedule with a series of regional events in 2014, the group said today. The addition of six AFCOM Symposium events fills out an active 2014 agenda for the group, which includes two Data Center World…

• Private Investment Firm Littlejohn & Co. Acquires Hostway Corporation

  Web host Hostway Corporation has been acquired by Littlejohn & Co., a Greenwich, CT-based private investment firm whose resources are expected to enhance Hostway's managed, cloud and web hosting efforts

• AWS Week in Review - December 9, 2013

  Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, December 9 We announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Version 5.5 of PHP. Tuesday, December 10 We announced that the AWS Management Console now includes Auto...

• RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A

  RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A : Today we're delighted to announce our Series A! We've raised $8M to funddevelopment, grow the RethinkDB community, and ultimately make databasetools feel indistinguishable from magic. A long way to go, but the second step was made. Wholeheartedly congrats! …

• 22 Recommendations for Building Effective High Traffic Web Software

  This is a guest post by Ashwanth Fernando, Software Engineer from the trenches at large scale internet companies. Inspired by the book "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch, I wanted to share my holistic recommendations on building high traffic web software (i.e. web applications/services that…

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