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…build a multi-billion dollar, standalone-company that is just as important as VMware or Salesforce in today's market. Our vision expands beyond ‘just' APM ( Application Performance Management) and this funding gives us a stepping stone for realizing our grand(er) plans.
It's never been more obvious that software — and the developers who create it — make the world run. We're here to make sure the software runs. For a look back at 2012 and how we got here, check …
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…2.5 Days : Twitter. 1 billion transactions/day : Salesforce.
Storing 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA . Downside, reading is very slow . And any data might conflict with the messages aliens have already inserted.
Assuming my infonome is 1 TB, it would cost $ 1,338,333 to store my existence in Amazon Glacier for a long nowish 10,000 years. # notbad
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…'s Moscone Convention Center that the event was going to be huge. There were Salesforce and Dreamforce signs all over nearby buildings and Howard Street (which runs between the two halves of Moscone) was closed.
The New Relic booth was part of the Developer's Zone and was in Moscone West, across the street from the rest of the conference. We were located near our partner Heroku and had a steady flow of traffic throughout the week. That being said, traffic …
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…, and I applied this to a project of ours that had to crunch tens of thousands of records from Salesforce. I'm also doing something similar with a personal project that has to fetch a lot of Pivotal Tracker stories to reduce them.
In cases like these, consuming (potentially unbounded) resources in a lazy manner allows one to start processing data earlier and to make as few requests as possible to get only the data you need.
Mostly Lazy
I want to talk about a neat little …
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Salesforce : Salesforce is architected in terms of pods. Pods are self-contained sets of functionality consisting of 50 nodes, Oracle RAC servers, and Java application servers. Each pod supports many thousands of customers. If a pod fails only the users on that pod are impacted.
The key to the cell is you are creating a scalable and robust MTBF friendly service. A service than can be used as a bedrock component in a system of other services coordinated by a programmable orchestration …
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…If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired. You know Salesforce, widely perceived among engineers to be a Software as a Services company? Their motto and sales point is "No Software", which conveys to their actual customers "You know those programmers you have working on your internal systems? If you used Salesforce, you could fire half of them and pocket part of the difference in your bonus." (There's nothing wrong …
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The folks at Heroku have put out a press release (okay, PR people, I'll call it a news release . Happy now?) as well as a blog post announcing that Yukihiro " Matz" Matsumoto has joined them. A quick recap for those of you unfamiliar with those names:
Heroku is a Salesforce.com subsidiary (they got bought by Salesforce in December 2010) that runs a cloud platform-as-a-service that supports Ruby as well as Node.js …
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…EC2 or Rackspace's cloud-computing project. It might be a service, like Salesforce, which many people use. And it might be another kind of thing, like a place to store files, like Box.net or Dropbox. And the difference is that rather than doing all of that configuration, that management, paying for those resources for your business directly and keeping them locally, you're instead achieving an economy of scale, running somewhere else, and typically with far less customization …
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What is a "post cloud world"? Is Salesforce not going to sell subscriptions to hosted software any more? Are they going to go back to shrink-wrapped software? WHAT 'S GOING TO HAPPEN ? This concept uses social media to gain knowledge of internal activities and externally about customers to ultimately help increase customer loyalty and foster interaction between employees and between the company and its customers.
Again, WTF ?! I can hardly parse that sentence and even when …
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