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CouchDB, The Definitive Guide

http://books.couchdb.org/relax/ I've made a compendium from the document available at that address, the free book from O'Reilly. Here is in PDF, ready to download for your ebook reader or just r...
  • alsanan published this 11 / 26 / 2009
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Open Government (Excerpt)

Available: January 2010 This collection of essays, interviews, and case studies provides a multi-faceted and nonpartisan account of government as it becomes more transparent, collaborative, and pa...
  • O'Reilly published this 09 / 29 / 2009
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Data Finds Data

By Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol, a chapter from the O'Reilly book, "Beatiful data", Next-generation “Smart” information management systems will not rely on users dreaming up smart questions to ask ...
  • ejjonk published this 07 / 29 / 2009
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Erlang Programming

This book offers you an in-depth explanation of Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault-tolerance, and fast response is essential. You'll learn how to write ...
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  • O'Reilly published this 07 / 07 / 2009
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The Geek Atlas

With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to se...
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  • O'Reilly published this 07 / 06 / 2009
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Website Performance Analysis

In this workshop, Steve Souders explains the rules he developed as part of YSlow, as well as new best practices he's developed while at Google. With those in mind, he analyzes several of today's po...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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The Secret Weapons of the AOL Optimization Team

AOL's swat team of optimization gurus is challenged with infusing the optimization mindset and skillset across 80+ teams and websites...with 4 people. An inside look at the tools, solutions and bes...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Micro-blogging

In this session we will discuss improvements made to Twitter over the last year to increase scalability. Changes made through internal process, development methodologies, queuing strategies, and op...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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What Makes Browsers Performant

The competition amongst browsers has been intense over the past year. Come to this session to hear from the Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer teams about what they've done to make their...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr

Communications and cooperation between development and operations isn't optional, it's mandatory. Flickr takes the idea of "release early, release often" to an extreme - on a normal day there are 1...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Shopzilla's Site Redo - You Get What You Measure

In 2007, Shopzilla, a leading comparison shopping service, realized that our sites were far too slow for our users and had become difficult to change and more difficult still to support. We were pr...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Scalable Internet Architectures

Internet traffic spikes aren't what they used to be. It is now evident that even the smallest sites can suffer the attention of the global audience. This presentation dives into techniques to avoid...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Surviving the 2008 Elections

Learn about how Daily Kos survived what was essentially an eleven month long Slashdotting, while reducing hardware costs and ultimately the amount of work needed to keep the site running. Watch ...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Native CPU Performance in the Browser with Google Native Client

Close the gap between browser and desktop application performance with native CPU performance for the web. This talk will provide an overview of this Google research technology and demonstrate a fe...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Metrics that Matter - Approaches To Managing High Performing Websites

Managing the technical quality of your website has become extremely complex and the number of metrics you collect has skyrocketed. Faced with potentially hundreds of candidate metrics, how do you s...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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In Search of... A better, faster, stronger Web

Watch a video at http://www.bestechvideos.com/2009/06/...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Performance Related Changes and their User Impact

We applied several types of page slowdowns to very small percentages of our users for short periods of time and measured the impact in terms of metrics like clicks, time to click, repeat site usage...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Building OpenDNS Stats

OpenDNS performs more than 8 billion DNS queries each day, generating mountains of data which we give back to our users. Processing and storing the interesting bits took a special map-reduce pipeli...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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2 Years Later, Loving and Hating the Cloud

Picnik has been using Amazon Web Services for two years. We love it. And we hate it. It also made us lazy. We'll explain what we mean, and how you can benefit. Watch a video at http://www.bestec...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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Death of a Web Server: Crisis in Caching

Go beyond the case study and watch a real-time crash, analysis, repair and recovery of a web site under load. In this workshop Richard brings an actual web farm to the stage, load tests it to failu...
  • BestTechVideos published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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