Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to slow down or even reverse the ageing of his body Agaton Strom/Redux/eyevine Bryan Johnson is finishing his 6.5-hour morning routine when I sign on to Zoom for my allotted 15-minute call with him (a constraint of what a member of his team describes as…

When we last visited WhatsApp they’d just been acquired by Facebook for $19 billion. We learned about their early architecture, which centered around a maniacal focus on optimizing Erlang into handling 2 million connections a server, working on All The Phones, and making users happy through…

Posted by Bill Montgomery on March 5, 2014 March 7, 2014 Back in December, I shared with you how Red Hat IT was beginning its DevOps transformation . That early post discussed our strategy, team composition, the importance of Open Source, and incremental change. It’s been about three months and I’d…

Posted by Bill Montgomery on December 10, 2013 March 7, 2014 DevOps is all about culture, right? Yeah, it’s developers and operators working more closely, but it’s more than that. DevOps is a culture that exudes the principles of Agile, Lean, and Open Source, to deliver higher quality products and…

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History, objectives and limits of the Ceilometer project http://zite.to/1cy4JOI

Cervelli in fuga 9 Dicembre 2013 Ultimo aggiornamento: 8:37 del 9 Dicembre 2013 “Dall’Erasmus mi sono trasferita a Parigi. Ora aiuto gli italiani a vivere qui” Elena Italiani è nella capitale francese da 11 anni. All'inizio si è adattata, dal call center al servizio clienti, poi ha aperto un'agenzia…

When we build networks – particularly small ones – it can be easy to “set it and forget it” by plugging everything into the router and clicking “Deny All” incoming and “Allow All” outgoing. While, indeed, this can be an effective start to small business security (many consumer routers that are not…

Three Signs It's Time to Get Off Amazon's Cloud http://zite.to/16j68XQ

You know your product is doing well when most of your early blog posts deal with the status of the waiting list of hundreds of thousands of users eagerly waiting to download your product. That's the enviable position Mailbox, a free mobile email management app, found themselves early in their…

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Home Cloud Computing Opinion Alvin Toffler introduced to the term 'information overload,' while Ray Kurzweil told us we'll be overload with more information each decade than in the previous century. There's a lesson for the IT departments of today (and tomorrow): Ignore emerging technology, despite…

Open at Cisco - October 13, 2012 - 3 Comments On Friday, Cisco released the Cisco Edition of OpenStack . This contains all the core OpenStack services for Essex and Folsom, along with installation scripts and other open source components to make it easier to install and run in production. Cisco has…

March 31, 2013 Want to learn to code? Start here. Last September, I wrote a post called Want to learn Rails? Start here. which has been pretty successful. I’ve met and emailed a good amount of people who have follow up questions or are in the middle of learning how to build things with software.…

Ever since the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi PC began shipping earlier this year, there's been virtually no limit to the fresh uses and extensions that have been envisioned for it. We've seen the credit card-sized device used in a DSLR battery grip , a Minecraft server , and a gaming console . Since its…

As 2013 gains steam, the big data and analytics world is radically changing. Just these past few weeks, I’ve spent time with industry thought leaders including Mayank Bawa , Mike Olson and Scott Yara , talking about the emergence of a new analytics stack that displaces the current BI-ETL-EDW…

Do you want to safely overclock your Raspberry Pi? Here’s how you need to do it. There are a few articles out there on overclocking your Raspberry Pi, and I followed them but it didn’t work. So after some Googling and Stack Overflow work I find the answer, and I’m here to save you some time. My New…

The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars Monday, May 20, 2013 at 8:25AM It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion . You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the…

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Yes, We’re A Tech Site. Yes, We’re Suggesting You Spend Less Time Online Posted on November 1, 2012 Contributing Writer I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on the Internet, and worrying that it’s too much. When I joined ReadWrite I was surprised to discover that my new…

Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals , a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices—such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how…

By Joe Sondow , Engineering Tools For the past several years Netflix developers have been using self-service tools to build and deploy hundreds of applications and services to the Amazon cloud. One of those tools is Asgard, a web interface for application deployments and cloud management. Asgard is…

In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using his existing network, so he decided to hack the phone.…

I’d like to take you on a little journey dear reader. My background I have two driving passions in my life. Music and computers. Since a kid I have tinkered with computers and noodled on musical instruments. For the past 10 or so years I have been working in IT, mostly as a sysadmin, mostly on busy…