Chirper is all about realtime indexing, so we wanted to highlight that on the frontend as much as possible, the search box performs the instant search as you type in the terms, and also show the number of tweets as they are indexed live on the system. It was important to keep the frontend as [...] [...more]
Last Friday was an InDay (A day at LinkedIn where you can take a break from your day-to-day work and build something cool) As a part of the SNA team, we have been building some really cool distributed systems, from storage, to messaging, to search. So we thought it’d be cool on this InDay to [...] [...more]
Package: Language System Summary: Let the user choose the application idiom Groups: Localization, PHP 5 Author: Stanescu Mihai Description: This class can be used to let the user choose the application idiom. It can scan a directory with files with texts to support different idioms and display a form select input to let the user [...] [...more]
Mirage: A New Multi-Scale Operating System for Clouds and Crowds Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge) Friday, October 22, 2010 ABSTRACT Applications run on all kinds of environments these days: multicore desktops, virtual cloud infrastructures, smart-phones, and web browsers. These diverse environments make it worth rethinking the long-term future of our software stacks; do we really [...] [...more]
Oracle presents upgraded Exadata system The company’s co-president has introduced an update to the Exadata system, promising greater speed and increased memory ( ZDNet UK – Application Development ) Read more on ZDNet UK [...more]
