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Letter to my Congressman, Howard L. Berman, Stop SOPA
Hello Congressman, I am contacting you regarding the new SOPA law that stands to be voted soon. I realize that…
Cloud Economics vs. Bare-Metal Infrastructure: Lessons from 15 Years of DevOps & Private Clusters
A deep architectural analysis of cloud economics, AWS EC2 compute overhead, egress bandwidth costs, and the ca…
Moe Mecto
New site up online on the EC2 Server. MoeMecto.com, it means my space in Russian.…
AWS EC2 Reserved Instance
I just paid over two hundred dollars for a "reserved instance." Now to my understanding this was supposed to a…
Yahoo BOSS vs Lucene
When I worked at Yahoo! we got to use BOSS for the search functionality for that particular property. BOSS sta…
Zend ORM and multiple primary keys.
I was searching for a way to define the zend table with multiple keys, and it seems it works just fine as an a…
California Law Prohibits Amazon Affiliate Program!?
Summary: Due to a new California state tax law signed by Governor Jerry Brown on June 29, 2011, Amazon has ter…
Commission Junction
I've tried to brake into the affiliate marketing game, started sometime 2008. I have to say that systems like …
Oracle is Suing Google over Java on the Android
What a ridiculous development. Sun Micro-systems was recently acquired by Oracle, and of course, the shenaniga…
eBay's Acquisition of Magento: An Architectural Retrospective on the Evolution of Enterprise eCommerce
An in-depth architectural retrospective on eBay's acquisition of Magento, analyzing the transition from LAMP/E…
Google Closure
Looks like there are yet more additions to the JavaScript world. This closure compiler is gaining popularity, …
Google Closure JavaScript Library
Introduction to Modern JavaScript Frameworks The JavaScript ecosystem is constantly evolving, with new additio…