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techprotocol··on Clang vs. GCC – code coverage checking
A good way to represent a branch coverage miss.
techprotocol··on A Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Rides in AWS Redshift
+1
techprotocol··on Live from Amazon's 'amazing' new device event
http://live.arstechnica.com/amazons-smartphone-unveil/
techprotocol··on Live from Amazon's 'amazing' new device event
The best live blog so far.
techprotocol··on Stop Buying Load Balancers and Start Controlling Your Traffic Flow with Software
AWS's offering which is software based - http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
techprotocol··on MySQL vs MongoDB vs NuoDB vs Amisa Server features comparison
This is like comparing apples and oranges. What technique do you use for benchmarking?
techprotocol··on MySQL vs MongoDB vs NuoDB vs Amisa Server features comparison
Not sure how one can achieve ACID on distributed system without limiting scalability. In addition, these system are limited by the CAP theorem. Therefore it is bound to have problems, would be interesting to read the high level architecture.
techprotocol··on The first Bitcoin post on HN
How many people had the slightest clue that books would be replaced by Kindles, CDs by iPODs, tablets selling as much as laptops. The comments show that people underestimated the impact bitcoin would make.

I still believe its just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Bitcoin.

techprotocol··on Amazon WorkSpaces
Sunray as a service!
techprotocol··on Amazon WorkSpaces
As per http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/details/, the workspace bundles provide the Windows 7 Experience to users (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2).
techprotocol··on Million Lines of Code - Infographic
Not sure how they measure the lines of code. Are comments, headers, etc included or is it just the the code flow?