Back in 2002, Yahoo acquired Inktomi, a struggling software vendor whose fortunes had turned unpleasantly with the dot-com crash. While at the time of the acquisition, Inktomi had refocused its efforts upon search, its original flagship product — the one that really drove its early revenue growth — was something called Traffic Server.
Traffic Server [...]
Traffic Server returns from the dead
November 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Google App Engine and other tidbits
April 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
As anticipated, Java support on Google App Engine has been announced. To date, GAE has supported only the Python programming language. In keeping with the “phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space” sandboxing that’s become common to cloud execution environments, GAE/Java has all the restrictions of GAE/Python. However, the already containerized nature of Java applications [...]
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A little SourceForge frustration
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
SourceForge puzzles me. I think it’s the combination of what is obviously eager effort to improve the site, and the fumbling to get the basics right.
On the plus side, SourceForge recently made a very welcome addition — adding “hosted apps”, including Wordpress and MediaWiki — as an option for all projects, for free. And the [...]
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Open source and behavioral economics
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
People occasionally ask me why busy, highly-skilled, highly-compensated programmers freely donate their time to open-source projects. In the past, I’ve nattered about the satisfaction of sharing with the community, the pleasure of programming as a hobby even if you do it for your day job, the “just make it work” attitude that often prevails among [...]
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