--- title: links for 2010-01-12 date: 2010-01-13T01:05:36Z modified: 2010-01-13T01:05:36Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/01/12/links-for-2010-01-12/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 3350 categories: - Links timestamp: 2010-01-13T01:05:36Z tags: - Links --- - [If Google Reveals Secret Desires, What Can It Say About Relationships? – All Tech Considered – Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/search_desires.html) more on the power of data, and what Google can tell us about ourselves (tags: [google](http://delicious.com/sogrady/google) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data) [relationships](http://delicious.com/sogrady/relationships) [trends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trends) [culture](http://delicious.com/sogrady/culture) [npr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/npr)) - [Measuring Measures: Flightcaster Open-sources Crane](http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2009/12/flightcaster-open-sources-crane_03.html) interesting release by the Flightcaster guys (tags: [crane](http://delicious.com/sogrady/crane) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [clojure](http://delicious.com/sogrady/clojure) [flightcaster](http://delicious.com/sogrady/flightcaster)) - [The Decade In Data – Forbes.com](http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/27/broadband-text-messages-technology-cio-network-data.html) tells an interesting story (tags: [forbes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/forbes) [technology](http://delicious.com/sogrady/technology) [statistics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/statistics) [trends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trends) [information](http://delicious.com/sogrady/information) [demographics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/demographics) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data)) - [The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ « Data Center Knowledge](http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/12/22/the-data-crunching-powerhouse-behind-avatar/) a peak inside Weta's datacenter (tags: [datacenter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/datacenter) [weta](http://delicious.com/sogrady/weta) [hp](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hp) [rendering](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rendering) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud)) - [William Vambenepe — Cloud + proprietary software = ♥](http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/1142) very late with this, but a nice piece from William Vambenepe on how the cloud can obscure proprietary software costs (tags: [williamvambenepe](http://delicious.com/sogrady/williamvambenepe) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [pricing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pricing) [proprietary](http://delicious.com/sogrady/proprietary)) - [SQL Server, NoSQL, RDBMS, Relational — Redmond Developer News](http://reddevnews.com/blogs/data-driver/2009/12/nosql-heat_0.aspx) interesting comments from a Microsoft Technical Fellow (tags: [davecampbell](http://delicious.com/sogrady/davecampbell) [microsoft](http://delicious.com/sogrady/microsoft) [database](http://delicious.com/sogrady/database) [nosql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nosql) [azure](http://delicious.com/sogrady/azure)) - [Mobile phone use may stave off, reverse Alzheimer's: study](http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/mobile-phone-use-may-stave-off-reverse-alzheimers-study-20100107-lva0.html) this would be a real boon, given our familial history (tags: [alzheimers](http://delicious.com/sogrady/alzheimers) [mobile](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mobile) [phone](http://delicious.com/sogrady/phone)) - [Special Report: Venture Capital by ITDatabase](http://memos.itdatabase.com/index.php?report=vc) data on VC mentions from ITDatabase (tags: [itdatabase](http://delicious.com/sogrady/itdatabase) [technology](http://delicious.com/sogrady/technology) [survey](http://delicious.com/sogrady/survey) [investing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/investing) [vcs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/vcs)) - [blog.reddit — what's new on reddit: Why did we take reddit down for 71 minutes?](http://blog.reddit.com/2010/01/why-did-we-take-reddit-down-for-71.html) "As most of you know, we moved reddit to EC2 back in May of 2009. Our experience there has been excellent so far. Since we moved to EC2, the number of unique users has gone up 50%, and pageviews are up more than 100%. To support this growth, we have added 30% more ram and 50% more CPU, yet because of Amazon's constant price reductions, we are actually paying less per month now than when we started." (tags: [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [memcached](http://delicious.com/sogrady/memcached) [aws](http://delicious.com/sogrady/aws) [ebs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ebs) [reddit](http://delicious.com/sogrady/reddit) [pricing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pricing)) - [rc3.org – Trend of the decade: decentralized process](http://rc3.org/2009/12/26/trend-of-the-decade-decentralized-process/) "All of these factors contributed to developers stepping up and taking ownership of the process of developing software. These days, you see lone developers implementing a somewhat formal process for building software. Ten years ago, it was tough to find programmers who wrote unit test. Now there are a lot of programmers out there writing unit tests even when people aren’t looking. Programmers are taking ownership of the full life cycle of software development like never before as well. Take a look at some of the more recent writing on continuous deployment — it covers everything from requirements to maintenance to monitoring of running applications. More work done in public, public discussion of that work, and the introduction of new best practices have defined the trend of the decade — developers owning the processes under which they work." (tags: [programming](http://delicious.com/sogrady/programming) [trends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trends) [decentralization](http://delicious.com/sogrady/decentralization) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [process](http://delicious.com/sogrady/process) [unittests](http://delicious.com/sogrady/unittests) [rafecolburn](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rafecolburn)) - [Windows & Red Hat pricing on Amazon EC2 vs. on-premise « rand($thoughts);](http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/windows-red-hat-pricing-on-amazon-ec2-vs-on-premise/) "Holding the product version and support level constant across an on-premise license and Amazon EC2 instance, the price premium of Windows vs. RHEL, if X% for on-premise, will be less than X% on the Amazon cloud. Said differently, the license cost differential between proprietary and open source products narrows in the cloud." (tags: [pricing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pricing) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [redhat](http://delicious.com/sogrady/redhat) [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [support](http://delicious.com/sogrady/support) [windows](http://delicious.com/sogrady/windows) [microsoft](http://delicious.com/sogrady/microsoft) [rhel](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rhel)) - [Williams College :: News & Events – News](http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases/1895/) good to see the alma mater keeping up with the times (tags: [williamscollege](http://delicious.com/sogrady/williamscollege) [analytics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/analytics)) - [First AnalyticsCamp in Chapel Hill – The Net-Savvy Executive](http://net-savvy.com/executive/events/first-analyticscamp-in-chapel-hill.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+net-savvy+%28The+Net-Savvy+Executive%29&utm_content=Twitter) i'd go if i was around (tags: [analyticscamp](http://delicious.com/sogrady/analyticscamp) [chapelhill](http://delicious.com/sogrady/chapelhill) [nc](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nc) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data) [camp](http://delicious.com/sogrady/camp)) - [Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe » Pan Handling in Open Source?](http://ow.ly/KF7V) thoughts on open source fundraising (tags: [chrisaniszczyk](http://delicious.com/sogrady/chrisaniszczyk) [panhandling](http://delicious.com/sogrady/panhandling) [fundraising](http://delicious.com/sogrady/fundraising) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource)) - [Developian: Cassandra support in rabbitreplication](http://developian.blogspot.com/2009/12/cassandra-support-in-rabbitreplication.html) i'm late with this, but it's interesting to see Cassandra building out connectors (tags: [cassandra](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cassandra) [rabbit](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rabbit)) - [If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It – NYTimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Healthcare-t.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all) Twittered this a while back, but deserves a link here as well. evidence based decision making is going to be far more common, soon, than it is today. (tags: [evidencebaseddecisionmaking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/evidencebaseddecisionmaking) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data) [intuition](http://delicious.com/sogrady/intuition) [medicine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/medicine) [healthcare](http://delicious.com/sogrady/healthcare)) - [140-Year-Old Logbooks Show Decline of Cod Fishing in Gulf of Maine](http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineHeadlineNews/tabid/968/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3479/ItemId/10131/Default.aspx) count me as unsurprised (tags: [fishing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/fishing) [logbooks](http://delicious.com/sogrady/logbooks) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data) [cod](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cod) [maine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/maine)) - [Hadoop Performance Optimization is the Next Big Thing](http://davidcancel.com/is-hadoop-performance-optimization-the-next-big-thing/) "While the barriers to use something like Hadoop have fundamentally dropped there are only a handful of experts that can make your Hadoop cluster perform well. What’s needed is a new suite of services and tools that can analyze your cluster and automatically optimize your performance. Hadoop Timelines, while rudimentary, is the beginning of an exciting new business niche, Hadoop Performance Optimization (HPO)." (tags: [hadoop](http://delicious.com/sogrady/hadoop) [performance](http://delicious.com/sogrady/performance) [optimization](http://delicious.com/sogrady/optimization) [timelines](http://delicious.com/sogrady/timelines) [davidcancel](http://delicious.com/sogrady/davidcancel)) - [Twitter: 5 Reasons to Leave, 5 to Return and 5 Ways to Find Some Balance « Social Media Obsession and Other Matters](http://pamelarosenthal.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/twitter-5-reasons-to-leave-5-to-returstay-and-5-ways-to-find-some-balance/) i'm not leaving, but it's an interesting thought exercise (tags: [pamelarosenthal](http://delicious.com/sogrady/pamelarosenthal) [twitter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/twitter) [continuous-partial-attention](http://delicious.com/sogrady/continuous-partial-attention) [attention](http://delicious.com/sogrady/attention)) - [The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free « Steve Blank](http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-earth-%E2%80%93-soda%E2%80%99s-are-no-longer-free/) "As startups scale into a company, founders and the board need to realize that the most important transitions are not about systems, buildings or hardware. It’s about the company’s most valuable asset – its employees. Great companies do this well." (tags: [programming](http://delicious.com/sogrady/programming) [culture](http://delicious.com/sogrady/culture) [entrepreneur](http://delicious.com/sogrady/entrepreneur) [startups](http://delicious.com/sogrady/startups) [change](http://delicious.com/sogrady/change) [engineers](http://delicious.com/sogrady/engineers)) - [Measuring Measures: You Should Waste 50% of Your Time](http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-should-waste-50-of-your-time.html#comments) some very interesting lessons in here. (tags: [wastingtime](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wastingtime) [bradfordcross](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bradfordcross)) - [Rise of the Preppers: America's New Survivalists – Newsweek.com](http://www.newsweek.com/id/228428) no, i'm not a "prepper." but i do think some self-sufficiency and preparation is probably a good idea. (tags: [survival](http://delicious.com/sogrady/survival) [preppers](http://delicious.com/sogrady/preppers) [culture](http://delicious.com/sogrady/culture) [apocalypse](http://delicious.com/sogrady/apocalypse)) - [Forrester: 5 keys for application development in 2010 | Software, Interrupted – CNET News](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10424758-62.html) nothing surprising in here, except that it's interesting in that if Forrester is recommending this it means that the recommendations are no longer bleeding edge, but early to late majority (tags: [forrester](http://delicious.com/sogrady/forrester) [recommendations](http://delicious.com/sogrady/recommendations) [applicationdevelopment](http://delicious.com/sogrady/applicationdevelopment) [web](http://delicious.com/sogrady/web)) - [Following Venture Capital for Signs of Technology to Come – NYTimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/technology/start-ups/04venture.html?ref=technology) don't agree with all of it, but worth the read (tags: [vc](http://delicious.com/sogrady/vc) [nytimes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/nytimes) [trends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/trends)) - [Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually | Cloudscaling](http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/amazons-ec2-generating-220m-annually) the calculation certainly qualifies as an estimation, but still, the numbers are interesting (tags: [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [economics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/economics) [revenue](http://delicious.com/sogrady/revenue) [aws](http://delicious.com/sogrady/aws) [ec2](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ec2)) - [Hitting the road · Nat Friedman](http://nat.org/blog/2010/01/hitting-the-road/) a loss for Novell, no doubt, but i'm happy for Nat. very much looking forward to seeing what he does next. (tags: [natfriedman](http://delicious.com/sogrady/natfriedman) [novell](http://delicious.com/sogrady/novell) [startup](http://delicious.com/sogrady/startup) [departure](http://delicious.com/sogrady/departure))