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Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev

Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.

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Reverse-engineering legacy ANSI C codebases

Start with the data structures, then document the APIs, then...

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Exclusive: Anatomy Of A Brokerage IT Meltdown

Regulators last year issued the SEC's first-ever privacy fine against broker-dealer GunnAllen for failing to protect customer data. But former IT staffers say regulators didn't seem to know half of this cautionary tale of outsourcing and oversight gone wrong.

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Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism

Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.

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OpenStack: An Overview

The latest release of OpenStack, which goes by the code name Folsom, adds two additional modules to the mix: Quantum and Cinder

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