• Linux: Introducing bugs
  Torvalds tells it like it is.
• i read more blogs on tuesday
  Why don’t I get this from Bloglines?
• Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA
  Interesting comments from Greg Linden and Doug Kaye where they take differing views and I think they are both right. Those SLAs suck if you are trying to run a business that is succesful – +1 to Greg. The economics of EC2 make it a very cheap way of boot strapping an idea. The probability is that the idea will fail any way. +1 to Doug.
  SmugMug pdf from Greg
• WiFi: Record Range Now 382 KM
  That is a long way!

• Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems
• Google Research Labs

• How to develop software like commanding a tank
• Here, here and here
  Interesting to compare build charts from 3 different projects.

• The Importance of the environment
  Jan is right about the manual nature of deployments being the source of all evil. I am not sure about his definition of simplicity though. I would prefer to focus on making the deployment easier through automation regardless of the number of different systems. (but I agree that less is more).
• Google Scalability Conference
  I think Dan might enjoy himself.
• Cal Henderson.

Mike Cohn: Agile Estimation Bay XP Meeting, March 2007

• Part One – video
• Part Two – video

Some stuff for the Bank Holiday weekend.

• Programming without a call stack – Event-Driven Architecutures – some thoughts on building Event Driven Systems by Gregor Hohpe (of Google)
• SmartFrog from HP – a configuration system from Steve Loughran of HP Research Labs (down the road in Bristol)
• Tenth Jini Community meeting – Brussels – Sept 13/14 2006
• Tim Bray is rambling about Grids

Also got to do some reading on Pi Calculus:

• Steve Ross Talbot
• W3 discussion from a couple of years back