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Read this paper[1], it explains various consistency in distributed system by using baseball scores updated over different medium. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/replica...

Isn't Netflix invested heavily on Mesos than k8s for their container orchestration? for example Titus https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/tagged/titus Fenzo https://github.com/Netflix/Fenzo

"The network effect will kill you unless you integrate with email from day 1."

Quoting Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Every one have/can express their own opinion being said that but speaking about some one dead recently on the merits of subjective term ('hero') is quite distasteful (IMHO) and makes me sad, makes me even sadder since it came from some one i respect.

I'm not a fan boy ( never owns a Apple made products so far) just that i don't think its going to constructive for any one around here, YMMV

Great day to quote from Dijkstra's good old article. At that time(1957) programming was not considered as a profession!

Extract from Humble Programmer[1]

"..in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I stated that I was a programmer. But the municipal authorities of the town of Amsterdam did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession. And, believe it or not, but under the heading "profession" my marriage act shows the ridiculous entry "theoretical physicist"!.."

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....

Migrate to EC2 with Appscale is a better way?

Fantastic reply, Thanks.

Not really, Amazon web services launched Elastic Cache based on Memcache thats Dotcloud's meal. Since Amazon is mostly customer driven more the need for specific platform AWS will launch likely.

Brilliant. Perhaps first time I'm seeing some one using Fibonacci for other than learning programming language ;-)

Impressive.

My fault. Edited the link. Thanks.

One of the main cause for "re-mirroring storm," is node not backing off from finding a replica.

Here's Twitter Back off decider implementation (Java)

https://github.com/twitter/commons/blob/master/src/java/com/...

When last time i looked i was little clueless on this. Now I find its usage.

Reminds me again, Distributed System are hard and the first fallacies "The network is reliable"

I really like this DotCloud business model. Although i see a competition directly from Amazon Cloud Formation. What will happen to DotCloud if all the independent vendors make their software Cloud Formation ready?

There is a difference here, DotCloud making the platform ready for to you vs the vendor makes the platform cloud formation ready.(Thats AWS they make others to work for them)

Would love to see how this little, nimble start up being chased by a big, fat, bully AWS, fights back.

RIP Rightscale server templates.

Make sense. Although given that Honeycomb (next version of Android for Tablet) mandates dual core processor how this applies?

Interesting technology. I feel it creates more opportunity like your favorite IDE configured with SCM (say github) available right on your browser. Code as you go. No more setting / configuring the IDE more than once.

Now i goto grok the stack vm code. ;-)

IMO, i feel this is a design flaw. Without understanding what's a NOSQL used for you can't except joins to work.

Shouldn't there be a checklist to show "What applications can be moved to cloud (appengine here)? including the myths, expectations, assertions?"

I'm sorry I have deleted it now. Im really tired of the local community here, found very few interesting and admiring ex dev_camp.I have found many smart people outside this community who code alot.I honestly feel those are real. The one who code alot and then speak. YMMV.

May be I sounded arrogant? I'm really tired of the community here meet/attended so many people doing "Introduction to .." talks. Discovered later the real one's never attend / participate the "community events" they just code and speak less.

"Discussion about programming/hacking/startups/other matters of intellectual interest are in general best done in a global context."

100% agree.

"This is an unpopular view point amongst certain folks here in India(and I fully expect to be downvoted ;-))"

Exactly I got down voted when i said "Its unnecessary"

Huh down voted! I told my view "Real Hackers i know, I admire in India, just code". they don't or won't spend in such community not even high profiled foss.in. That's the truth."

Any way its just a number on site, keep 'em coming ;-)

Kudos to the efforts. But sorry to say, this is really unnecessary. There are hell a lot of hackers in Europe and there is no HN Europe.

Real Hackers in India I know few (over social networks) they don't talk.(You can't see them in foss.in )They just code.!

We are not there yet. so just code! <back to maintain the spaghetti code>

(Disclaimer: I'm a Indian. I'm not a hacker myself yet,I still work in a body shopping "Megacorp")

[Deleted] Few points as its reported as offending.My point is Programming / Hacking has to align with global context.

And in my personal experience I never found any good hackers in the local community, I have always founded them outside of it and I don't expect HNI will have them. If it does Im happy as well.

This sucks. Android is one the best thing happened to Java in recent times. And this actually means the Apache Harmony people wont get the TCK now. Sucks even more.

Google also wanted it to be tool for all the enterprise, what will happen to other implementation of Google wave for enterprises, for example say Novel's pulse?

Start with issue tracker / user list of your favourite OSS project. If the project has more comitters and stable its very unlikely you will able to contribute. So choosing the right project also matters. Most contribution to opensource came because of personal needs so IMO if you use your project extensively its likely you will be able to contribute back.

There is actually Google I/O talk The Myth of Genius Programmer. Where Googlers (Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman) talks about when to join in a collaborative (OSS) project It could helpful. http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/sessions/MythGeniusPro...