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A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by Dan Benjamin & John Siracusa.
Hypercritical #22: I Would Not Build Underground
June 17, 2011 at 10:00pm • Short URL • Wiki Entry
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin decompress after WWDC, then discuss Apple’s (apparent) iCloud data center strategy, comparing it to other successful online service companies: Amazon, Google, and Facebook. John also recounts his one and only remotely significant interaction with Steve Jobs.
This episode is sponsored by FreshBooks and Sound Studio 4.
Notes Sponsored by HelpSpot.
- Apple iCloud Azure use tested, confirmed – InfiniteApple
- Windows Azure
- What Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? – Stephen Foskett
- Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon’s scale-out storage solution
- MapReduce – Wikipedia
- Google File System – Wikipedia
- BigTable – Wikipedia
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – Wikipedia
- Open Compute Project
- Scribe (Distributed Logging Service) – Wikipedia
- Apache Thrift – Wikipedia
- HipHop for PHP – Wikipedia
- OS X Lion – Apple
- Apple Dropping the ‘Mac’ From ‘Mac OS X’? – Daring Fireball
- WWDC 1997 Steve Jobs Closing Keynote – YouTube
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