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Stop SOPA: DNS Tampering, Rights & Censorship

Examine the historical 2012 SOPA fight: technical flaws of DNS censorship, threats to DMCA 512 safe harbors, a…

Cloud Economics vs. Bare Metal

Comprehensive architectural and financial analysis of public cloud versus bare-metal infrastructure: AWS EC2 e…

Moe Mecto & Early Cloud Architecture: Deploying to AWS EC2 in 2011

Engineering retrospective on deploying Russian community platform Moe Mecto to AWS EC2 in 2011: Xen virtualiza…

Demystifying AWS EC2 Reserved Instances

Retrospective and architectural runbook on AWS EC2 Reserved Instances: The difference between financial billin…

Enterprise Search Engine Architecture: Yahoo BOSS vs. Apache Lucene, Solr & Elasticsearch

Architectural comparison of Yahoo BOSS and Apache Lucene: inverted index internals, lexical tokenization, BM25…

Composite Primary Keys in Relational ORMs: Zend_Db_Table, Active Record & Doctrine 2

Architectural guide to composite primary keys in relational ORMs: Zend_Db_Table array definitions, Active Reco…

California's 2011 Amazon Associates Ban & Affiliate Nexus Tax History

Historical and regulatory analysis of Amazon's June 2011 termination of California Associates following Assemb…

Affiliate Attribution Architecture: Tracking

Engineering analysis of affiliate attribution architecture: exploring client-side 1x1 tracking pixels, network…

Oracle v. Google & The Battle for APIs: Fair Use, Dalvik & Open Source

Historic technical and legal analysis of Oracle v. Google: declaring code vs implementing code, Dalvik VM regi…

eCommerce Architecture Retrospective

An in-depth architectural retrospective on eBay's acquisition of Magento, analyzing the transition from LAMP/E…

Google Closure Compiler: Advanced Optimizations

Architectural analysis of Google Closure Compiler: AST parsing, JSDoc static typing, Advanced Optimizations, d…

A Guide to Google Closure JavaScript Library

Introduction to Modern JavaScript Frameworks The JavaScript ecosystem is constantly evolving, with new additio…