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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

With companies expecting software products to handle constantly increasing volumes of requests and network bandwidth use, apps must be primed for scale. We met this challenge with advancements in network computing like remote procedure calls over network protocols: Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).

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SAMOS – How To Evaluate Disruptive Innovation

CTOvision

One of the unintended consequences of distributed computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that things get more complicated. In digital communications, when something is synchronous, both ends of the network have a clock that is synchronized. The most famous example of this is SONET, Synchronous Optical Network.

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Exceeding the Benefits of Complexity? A Fractal Model for the Social Business Era

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

and SOA is one that I deeply explored in the 2005-2007 timeframe, and my ideas on this even made the cover story of the SOA/Web Services Journal at one point. Companies like Best Buy and Sears have been getting the message among the old guard firms and looking at integration, partnership, and engagement as an open network activity.

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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does through their traditional Web sites. It also underscores the exponential results that comes from leveraging the intrinsic nature of open networks like the World-Wide Web to enable rapid growth. " What is an open API ?

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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does through their traditional Web sites. It also underscores the exponential results that comes from leveraging the intrinsic nature of open networks like the World-Wide Web to enable rapid growth. " What is an open API ?

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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The adoption of Amazon's Web services is currently driving more network activity than everything Amazon does through their traditional Web sites. It also underscores the exponential results that comes from leveraging the intrinsic nature of open networks like the World-Wide Web to enable rapid growth. " What is an open API ?

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Registration & Networking Breakfast. Networking Break. Register here.