From the monthly archives: March 2008
Most of us, especially in the software industry, are data driven by nature. Given that propensity, I’m surprised by how few applications are purposely instrumented to provide real, hard data about how they are functioning. This is one area where Microsoft does a very good job. Most Microsoft applications generate “Watson” data – information captured [...]
Continue Reading →12 or 15 years ago a boss of mine gave me some investing advice. He suggested that as I was an early evaluator of technology, the things that I was choosing to buy for my company were likely the things that other people in similar roles at other companies would eventually choose to buy. If [...]
Continue Reading →I’m one of those folks who likes to check references for prospective employees. Yesterday was a perfect example of the ideal situation. On a scale of 1 to 10, I was at about an 8.5 on the enthusiasm scale when considering extending an offer to one candidate. Then I called his references. Wow. Talk about [...]
Continue Reading →Today we released three important social features. Firstly, now you can have more control and grant a broader range of permissions to people you share blists with: read, add, modify, delete. You can choose to keep blist data private, leave it public, or share with a few people. Also, we now let you search through [...]
Continue Reading →When you go to a fairly academic conference, it’s frowned upon to award a best in show. Yesterday I attended the Hadoop Summit and expected to hear all the cool stuff Yahoo and Powerset were doing with it. By far, however, the runaway winner for “best use of Hadoop” in my book goes to Facebook. [...]
Continue Reading →I have a passion for the operation of systems at Internet scale. Part of that passion is academic. Part is pragmatic. Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Amazon each have differing approaches to building services that scale to support tens of millions of users and billions of objects. I look forward to working at that scale again [...]
Continue Reading →Happy Easter everyone. We all think of Easter eggs as the wonderfully decorated eggs and candy or prize filled plastic eggs hunted by kids of all ages on Easter. Easter eggs have been a part of the software industry for a long time too. Like the annual pastime of hunting in the yard or park [...]
Continue Reading →Thursday we presented at Under the Radar in Mountain View. It was a lot of fun. I didn’t see all of the company presentations due to my own preparation and there being two separate, parallel tracks. The two startup company presentations I liked the most were SlideRocket and SlideShare. I liked them for different reasons. [...]
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