It is that time of year again as TechCrunch reports on Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report. It is always an excellent analysis of the trends and should be required reading for everyone in our industry. TechCrunch also has the first report of the Salesforce purchase of Demandware. I don’t talk about acquisitions too often,… Read More Geek Reading June 3, 2016 #1120
Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2016 #1045
TechCrunch has a great post on the “hidden” cofounders, basically significant others. More interestingly, TechCrunch has had a roll of insightful posts lately in addition to the pile of tech “news”. In other stories, Pinterest tells us a little about how they scale some parts of their infrastructure. Seeing how sites scale things is always… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2015
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