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	<title>Soam Acharya</title>
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	<description>I&#039;m Soam Acharya. Welcome to my big fat tech life here in the SF Bay Area.</description>
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		<title>EC2 Instance CPU Types</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon provides a whole variety of instance types for EC2 but lists their CPU capabilities via &#8220;EC2 Compute Units&#8221; where
One EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) provides the  equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007  Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
That&#8217;s somewhat helpful for m1.small but what about c1.xlarge which has something like 20 EC2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=214</link>
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		<title>MapReduce vs MySQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Aker talks about the post Oracle MySQL world in this O&#8217;Reilly Radar interview. Good stuff. One section though caused me to raise an eyebrow:
MapReduce works as a solution when your queries are operating over a lot of data; Google sizes of data.  Few companies have Google-sized datasets though. The average sites you see, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Brave New World Of Oversharing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times:
“Ten years ago, people were afraid to buy stuff online. Now they’re sharing everything they buy,” said Barry Borsboom, a student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who this year created an intentionally provocative site called Please Rob Me. The site collected and published Foursquare updates that indicated when people were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=201</link>
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		<title>Recruiter LOL</title>
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The picture says it all really. For the record, the full subject line from the recruiter was &#8220;Data Analytics Architect Opportunity &#8211; NOT SPAM.&#8221;
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		<link>http://soam.org/?p=195</link>
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		<title>EC2 Reserved Instance Breakeven Point 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Amazon&#8217;s reserved instance pricing announcement last year, there were quite a few folks writing about the breakeven point for your ec2 instance i.e. the length of time you&#8217;d need to run your instance continuously before the reserved pricing turned out to be cheaper than the standard pay-as-you-go scheme. Looking around, I believe the general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Netflix + AWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I discovered Practical Cloud Computing, a blog run by Siddharth Anand, an architect in Netflix&#8217;s cloud infrastructure group. In a recent post, he writes:
I was recently tasked with fork-lifting ~1 billion rows from Oracle into SimpleDB. I completed this forklift in November 2009 after many attempts. To make this as efficient as possible, I worked closely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=180</link>
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		<title>Replacing my MacBook Pro Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in grad school, my thesis advisor Brian Smith, to his eternal credit, really put the systems into computer systems where our research was concerned. He also placed the same emphasis on our group and how we dealt with our own computers. We joked that much like Marine Boot Camp, our group members needed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=171</link>
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		<title>jconsole, ec2, ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote debugging your jmx enabled process in the ec2 cloud via jconsole isn&#8217;t easy for any number of reasons. Perhaps it&#8217;s the NAT setup at AWS. Perhaps it&#8217;s Ubuntu or Linux related. The most common workarounds given are to have jconsole run on the remote box and either export its display locally via X (using, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Bing&#8217;s Engineers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice San Jose Mercury article on the ex-Inktomi and Yahoo-ites behind Bing&#8217;s real time search launch &#8211; I particularly enjoyed the opening paragraphs:
Microsoft engineer Chad Carson wasn&#8217;t thrilled about surrendering his solo window seat on the Alaska Airlines flight from San Jose to Seattle so he could talk shop with his boss Sean Suchter and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Peak Load</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The graph below shows the requests/sec on the Delve production load balancers for our playlist service system. The time frame roughly covers the past 7 days.

As you can see, we&#8217;ve had at least three major peaks over the past couple of days. Some of these have been due to some big traffic partners coming online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soam.org/?p=151</link>
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