The web is becoming more dynamic, context-aware and personalized by the day, and the amount of information consumed by each person is increasing exponentially. But software infrastructure is not keeping pace. We need to develop data processing architectures that go beyond technologies like memcache, MapReduce, NoSQL. Read More »
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Join us for breakfast on Dec. 3 as we bring together experts from the world of web infrastructure and ask them to outline best options for startups. We’ll discuss future trends of platforms and new options for startups as the concepts behind hosting evolve. Read More »
Love it or fear it, there is no denying the impact cloud computing is having on IT practices. Despite a summer full of high-profile outages, cloud computing spent the season continuing its march toward ubiquity, as our third-quarter wrap-up at GigaOM Pro showed (subscription… Read More »
Gear6 today released Web Cache in an effort to commercialize the Internet’s predominant (de facto, for Linux) distributed caching protocol, memcached. Every Top 20 web site not owned by Microsoft uses memcached (Facebook has almost 1,000 servers dedicated to its memcached tier)… Read More »
It’s time to exhale: Our first Structure 08 conference, slated to be held on June 25th in San Francisco, is almost sold out. With a week to go we have just 25 tickets left, and I have to tell you that despite… Read More »
