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	<description>Franco Travostino's blog on services at Internet scale</description>
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		<title>Redress your apps for Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Alex Stamos of iSEC Partners visited and gave a great talk titled “Securely Moving Your Business into the Cloud”.  Much of that material is publicly available here. Alex is a straight shooter and a straight talker.  By the second slide, he’s already warmed up and delivers quite a punch line:  You cannot securely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/08/redress-your-apps-for-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Cloud: Dark Side, Good Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found some good food for thoughts in Dave Durkee&#8217;s article &#8220;Why Cloud Computing will never be free&#8221; in the May issue of Communications of the ACM (did I ever say how much I enjoy reading CACM, lately?)
Competitive price pressures threaten to down spiral Cloud service quality. Those consumers who nickel and dime the commodity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/07/cloud-dark-side-good-side/</link>
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		<title>Sports that scale: Soccer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a huge fan of football round kind. Every four years, I take the time to follow the FIFA World Cup and keep tags on nearly all the 32 teams that start off.
The FIFA tournament funnels large, geographically disperse audiences onto relatively few events (if compared to more spread-out calendars like the Olympics’). We are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/06/sports-that-scale-soccer/</link>
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		<title>My other computer is a Utah datacenter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently in Salt Lake City and visited the new datacenter that opened back in May.
Quick facts:

~300M$ investment
240,000 square foot building; inside, 3x rooms with 20,000 sqf each of rack-worthy raised floor
fault tolerant Tier IV data center
designed PUE of 1.4
7.2 MW of total server load
400V/230V power distribution (230V to servers)
Outside air used for cooling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/06/my-other-computer-is-a-utah-datacenter/</link>
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		<title>StubHub goes Mobile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, we unveiled the latest installment in the collection of iPhone/iPad applications by eBay Inc.: the StubHub app. Kudos to my colleagues. They didn’t limit themselves to the traditional purchase flow, like: search event, select seats, buy tickets. Instead, they raised the bar higher in several ways:

I scroll through the list of events near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/06/stubhub-4-mobile/</link>
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		<title>Identity Abuzz: Notes from IIW10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent two days at the Internet Identity Workshop 10. IIW events are set in an open space, unconference style. True to its workshop designation, it’s a place to do work collegially. It’s not a place to give scholarly papers or some polished slide gesticulation.
I list hereafter the topics that I engaged on at IIW10, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/05/iiw10/</link>
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		<title>Living scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a white stone day for microbiologists, science, and all of us. Craig Venter and team have successfully created a new species &#8220;whose parent is the computer&#8221; (in Venter&#8217;s words). Their fabricated cells are capable of continuous self-replication and have already replicated several billion times. It is quite a new benchmark for a man-made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/05/living-scale/</link>
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		<title>Identity Abuzz: OAuth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The community that concerns with Identity in the Web has had a very hectic month of April. Identity is the bedrock foundation of anything social – think 3rd-party value-add services rooted on the social graph that any one of the Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. expose and promote access to. Among various events, I single out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/05/identity-abuzz-oauth/</link>
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		<title>Cloud pulls crypto agendas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a great monthly publication CACM is. In the 15 years that I’ve been a member of the ACM, this must be the time that I’m getting the most out of CACM (now in soft-copy as well for extra convenience). In recent issues, CACM has featured interesting crypto papers with a Cloud spin.
In the March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/04/cloud-pulls-crypto-agendas/</link>
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		<title>10 Issues with smartphone apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone best characterized application vs. platform in just a dozen words, as follows: A good application never surprises, a good platform never stops to surprise (I’d love to give proper credits, if someone is kind enough to provide me the citation).
I continue to be quite impressed with the two smartphone platforms that I dug into, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thingsthatscale.com/2010/03/10-issues-with-smartphone-apps/</link>
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