Prologue: There is no doubt that the computing infrastructure is going thru another phase – Cloud computing has captured the imagination and mindset of the IT industry [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/technology/25proto.html]. Some even compare this movement as the fourth wave – dial-up, Client Server, browser-based and now Cloud. While the concepts were around in different forms, the industry [...]
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Book Review : The Big Switch – Rewiring the world from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
Posted: July 26, 2008 in Book Reviews, Cloud Computing, Web 2.04
Founders at Work Guy Kawasaki has an excellent review here on the book ‘s review. I will add my comments after I get a chance to read and internalize ! Actually Guy has done an excellent job of introducing the book – am not sure I can add more … let us see …
Book Review : Multi-Core Programming – Increasing Performance through Software Multi-threading
Posted: October 1, 2006 in Book ReviewsI had written this review for /. and never got published. Basically I never got any reply. So thought will post it here, lest it be useful for the readers Multi-Core Programming – Increasing Performance through Software Multi-threading by Shameem Akhter & Jason Roberts, Intel press Link for the book Context A funny thing happened [...]
