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    If You Start Me Up... Doing Business on AWS

    Gus Bessalel

    The greatest opportunity for Amazon Web Services to grow in the short term lies in convincing large enterprises to move their computing into the cloud. Given the sheer volume of enterprise on-premise installations, AWS is counting on the incremental, and in many cases wholesale, migration of legacy operations to the cloud to fuel the next phase of its explosive growth. But despite this being the year of the enterprise at this month's AWS re:Invent conference, the drumbeat of AWS as a fertile ground for startups remained loud and steady. Everybody understands the rationale for cloud computing: no capital investment, near infinite scaling, and a constellation of ancillary services to address security, analytics, storage, and other requirements. It is now possible to build a substantial...

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    #Pipeday: Celebrating 49 Years of |

    Drew Wright

    This Friday marks the 49th birthday of the ideas behind one of the most powerful characters in the command shell (both *nix and Windows): the pipe. For those who don't know, the pipe is this character: | It's Shift-Backslash on a US keyboard, and it is used to send the output of one process to the input of another. The pipe, and its counterparts stdin and stdout, were essentially described in a memorandum written by Doug McIlroy on October 11, 1964. At the time, McIlroy was just beginning to lead the Computing Techniques Research Department at Bell Labs, where UNIX was born. The key sentence we're celebrating is this one: We should have some ways of coupling programs like garden hose-screw in another segment when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way. McIlroy's memo...

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