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How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.Scary link about the Scala language interview you providedThat sure doesn't instill confidence. All this talk about using a languange "you are passionate about" blew me way.You have a service here that is failing miserably in terms of performance, and these jokers...

Tags: C/C++, Firewalls, Programming languages, Blue Whales, Fail Whales

Discussion threads 2009-04-11

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Twitter: Can it make security a priority?

Twitter has been schooled by a 17-year-old hacker over a generic worm that has plagued the social messaging site.  The big question: Can Twitter take security seriously as it wrestles with uptime issues.  Dancho Danchev has a nice dissection of Twitter's worm issues. Twitter was hit with at...

Tags: Twitter, Dancho Danchev, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-14

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-13

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...

Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Guest post: Google in talks to buy Twitter (hope) in the shadow of IBM buying Sun (fear)

Guest post: Google in talks to buy Twitter hope in the shadow of IBM buying Sun fearNonviolenceHi Dennis,Thanks for including my "guest" blog here.I've been thinking a lot about the roots of "violence" in the economy. While radical cost cutting and mass layoffs are a symptom of economic violence--where are...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sibling rivalry, Google Inc., IBM Corp., violence, Cain, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Google buy Twitter? Probably not the best move.

Google buy Twitter? Probably not the best move.Pay how much its worthTen bucks. Google spent millions on MySpace - only to have Facebook rise out of nowhere. Don't you think that if Google bought Twitter, some other service would pop up? It's not rocket science to do what Twitter has...

Tags: Operational accounting, Viruses and worms, Twitter, Google Inc., Jaiku

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Hands up who's tired of Twitter?

Hands up who's tired of Twitter?...Raises hand immediately...ntRE: Hands up who's tired of Twitter?Finding a good revenue stream is very important to a business like Twitter or other internet businesses. People need to know why they should spend money on your service. When you are dealing with intangibles, it is...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-10-20