Tumblr (3.0; @quaterball)http://quaterball.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/20-hot-international-startups-you-need-to-watch-2011-9#criteo-is-the-best-ad-retargeting-company-in-the-world-1">Hot startups!</a>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9989453149http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9989453149Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:15:13 +0200<a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35290.html">The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines</a>: <h3><strong>Abstract</strong></h3> <p><strong><br/></strong></p> <p>As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and software resources in these facilities must work in concert to efficiently deliver good levels of Internet service performance, something that can only be achieved by a holistic approach to their design and deployment. In other words, we must treat the datacenter itself as one massive warehouse-scale computer (WSC). We describe the architecture of WSCs, the main factors influencing their design, operation, and cost structure, and the characteristics of their software base. We hope it will be useful to architects and programmers of today’s WSCs, as well as those of future many-core platforms which may one day implement the equivalent of today’s WSCs on a single board.</p> <p><br/><strong>Citation: </strong><em>The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines</em>, <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/LuizBarroso.html" target="_blank">Luiz André Barroso</a>, <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/author79.html" target="_blank">Urs Hölzle</a>, 2009.</p>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9918541906http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9918541906Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:56:00 +0200<a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/pure-and-proven-cloud-architecture.html?utm_source=entblog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGoogleEnterpriseBlog+%28Official+Google+Enterprise+Blog%29">Pure and proven cloud architecture - From Google</a>: <p>A starting point to explore the technical layer behind the scenes.</p>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9918491095http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9918491095Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:54:14 +0200<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tumblr-is-kicking-posterous-ass-2010-1">Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass</a>: <p>Notice the differences…</p>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9848802403http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9848802403Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:07:40 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpg1wngh4l1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/8506973684" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Data beats emotions.</p> <p>- Sean Rad</p></blockquote> <p>Vero, verissimo. Da non dimenticare mai!!!</p>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9181573869http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9181573869Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:35:58 +0200Sean Raddataemotion<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpblfv8Tqw1qz6pqio1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://startupquote.com/post/8399036416" target="_blank">startupquote</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>It’s simple until you make it complicated.</p> <p>- Jason Fried</p> </blockquote>http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9038227372http://quaterball.tumblr.com/post/9038227372Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:00:23 +0200Jason Friedsimplicitycomplicatedsimple