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Impact of modern buildings on birds

Posted by Jean-Marc Liotier 835 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com) View profile
Category: World news | Tags: architecture ecology animals

Glass walls, bright lights and tall buildings are lethal features for the avian fauna - with a very litteral impact. Maybe the crows of La Defense are not getting by on just fast food leftovers.. read more »
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Latency is everywhere - How to crush it

Posted by Jean-Marc Liotier 725 days ago (http://highscalability.com) View profile
Category: Development | Tags: architecture performance optimization

Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in page generation time dropped traffic by 20%. How do we fight latency in humongous infrastructures ? read more »
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Overview of the Google architecture

Posted by Jean-Marc Liotier 648 days ago (http://highscalability.com) View profile
Category: Sysadmin | Tags: architecture infrastructure scalability

A platform approach to building scalable applications allows Google to outperform the competition in deploying products at a quick pace with network effects. Here is an overview of how they do it read more »
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Marble tiled forward operating bases : Saddam's palaces in contemporary Iraq

Posted by Jean-Marc Liotier 460 days ago (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com) View profile
Category: Arts | Tags: architecture decay military war

A tour of the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein, converted into temporary housing for the U.S military - by Richard Mosse who uses a Phillips Explorer 8x10 for reporting ! read more »
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NoSQL : non-relational key value stores vs. RDBMS

Posted by Jean-Marc Liotier 426 days ago (http://www.dbms2.com) View profile
Category: Development | Tags: databases architecture enterprise bpm

Non-relational key value stores are about ACID vs. scaling writes. But don't believe the NoSQL hype : not every application is as simple as a web shopping cart workflow... read more »
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