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DISTRIBUTED: Remote Employees are Happier, Healthier and More Productive | Intridea Blog

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:38:56 +0000

Yep, you read that right. While it’s no surprise that remote employees are happier than their commuting counterparts, many business owners are shocked to learn distributed employees are also more productive. How could that be? It’s actually pretty simple. Psychologists have proven time and again that a happy employee is also a productive employee.

Tags: #distributed #imported:pinboard #productivity #remote #work

Apache Mesos

Wed, 21 May 2014 22:24:37 +0000

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, Jenkins, Spark, Aurora, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.

Tags: #cloud #distributed #gluecon #imported:pinboard #mesos

Apache Mesos

Wed, 21 May 2014 22:24:37 +0000

Tags: #cloud #distributed #gluecon #mesos

Think Like the Internet – or How to Fight Facebook, and Win | børge forteller om livet

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:39:38 +0000

The dominance of Facebook is a democratic problem. Our only hope is to use the same tactic the internet used to win against the networks of the time: Open up for collaboration between networks. This is done through federation. Here is how and why it will work, and how you can help.

Tags: #distributed #facebook #federation #social

Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB « EclipseSource Blog

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:26:22 +0000

"This is a tale of three images. I found these images while investigating the internals of several different applications. There are some really neat software projects emerging at the moment, and as a developer I always find it interesting to take a look at the implementation details, because there is often a lot to be learned. It’s not always something you might need right now, but maybe a few years down the line you may be confronted with a similar problem. Plus – in my opinion – knowing a bit about the internals of a program helps reasoning about its behaviour."

Tags: #clojure #couchdb #data #distributed #git #persistence #trees

5 reasons why your company should be distributed « toni.org

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:06:29 +0000

"Your employees will love it ... You can hire great people wherever you find them ... You will use better communication tools ... You can still be social ... Your offices will be more fun"

Tags: #automattic #business #career #coworking #culture #distributed #management #telecommuting #work

Git: The Lean, Mean, Distributed Machine

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:06:47 +0000

"git The Lean Mean Distributed Machine By Chris Wanstrath anyway, i want to talk a bit about git today"

Tags: #distributed #git #github #scm #slides #talks #versioncontrol

RPC and its Offspring: Convenient, Yet Fundamentally Flawed

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:33:28 +0000

Tags: #corba #distributed #rest #rpc #soap #webdev

echovar » Blog Archive » A Venezuelan Moment: The Gillmor Gang considers nationalizing Twitter

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:54:18 +0000

"The idea of building competitors to Twitter on the same platform, or redistributing Twitter to multiple players reminds me of the idea that New York City should be rebuilt in Ohio because it would be cheaper."

Tags: #distributed #metablogging #nyc #twitter #webdev

Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:25:39 +0000

"beanstalkd is a fast, distributed, in-memory workqueue service."

Tags: #beanstalkd #dev #distributed #webdev #workqueue

open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:29:51 +0000

"The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."

Tags: #MSFT #cloud #distributed #google #ibm #opensource #software

FOAF + Rendevous (or Zeroconf) = FOAFFinger

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:14:19 +0000

Tags: #distributed #foaf #semweb

Cougaar is a Java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications.

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:23:17 +0000

Tags: #agents #distributed #java