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“Many modern web sites need fast access to an amount of information so large that it cannot be efficiently stored on a single computer,” Nick Kallen wrote on Twitter’s blog . A good way to deal with this problem is to “shard” that information; that is, store it across multiple computers instead of on just one.” As an alternative to sharding, Twitter has developed a framework that can be used in lieu of either custom-building data-store systems or using untested open-source alternatives and is sharing the code with the public. Sponsor From a number of data-store building experiences, Twitter has “extracted Gizzard, a Scala framework that makes it easy to create custom fault-tolerant, distributed databases.” As an example, Kallen provides ” Rowz .” “To get up-and-running with Gizzard quickly, clone Rows and start customizing!” The full code for Gizzard is also available. He describes Gizzard as a middleware networking service that handles partitioning through a forwarding table, supports migration and prosecutes “eventual consistency.” The implication of this may be that startups and smaller companies may better be able to deal with large amounts of data quickly, and thereby better serve the needs their users with fewer resources expended. Discuss
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Trumba , the shared calendar and events communications software company has added the ability for users to attach “custom objects” to their Web calendars and other websites. These “objects” are in essence tables that unfold graphically, keyed to links, or can stand on their own as pages. Trumba’s customers use the company’s software to publish interlinked calendars and provide other modular features to their websites. Clients include media companies like the New York Times and Ottaway Newspapers, academic institutions like Kansas State and Emory Universities, and groups like the City of Seattle and the New Orleans Saints. Sponsor The custom objects advance the inherent modularity of Trumba’s offerings. From Trumba : “To quickly grasp the idea of an Object, think of it as a table. Each record is represented by a row. Each attribute is represented by a column. Because Objects are tables, you can use them to store any collection of data that you might want to publish on your website.” Dan Hickman, Trumba’s president, wrote us: “Some of our competitors offer a canned venue or performer features that let you track and publish that information along with your calendar but our custom objects feature lets you create any type of content that might be associated with your events. The feature can even be used to publish a connected database of information that’s not even related to your calendar.” Examples include attaching venue descriptions and pictures to events, to provide detailed listings of departments in a sleekly retrievable fashion and the ability to solicit and utilize user-generated content. Disclosure: The author helped Trumba start their first blog many years ago. Discuss
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Posterous , the integrated small blogging platform, announced the debut of one-stop custom domain registration today. A new ” domain purchasing feature ” provides a one-click on-site way to avoid what Posterous’ Vincent Chu called “the geeky details” of securing and applying a personal domain to your account. Sponsor “After you’ve purchased your own domain, we also make it super easy to set up your own personalized email boxes, calendars, and wikis using Google Apps.” Instead of mucking about in the guts of your personal branding engine, this push-button domain machine avers to do it all for you. A big deal? Just a deal of modest proportion, in keeping with the simplicity the service emphasizes. Tumblr , Posterous’ biggest competitor, also offers custom domains but not through its own site and not integrated with Google. Discuss
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Austin, Texas – May 20th, 2009 — OnePointe Solutions LLC announces the launch of their new website. Their new site focuses on five core components, modular workbench design, laboratory workbench solutions, custom workbenches, mobile material handling and instrumentation carts, and stainless steel workbench solutions. The new website showcases their products, but also provides “how to” contact information and a customer support platform that is state of the art and easy to use. The new website displays the company’s high standard of workmanship along with a flexible variety of components and made-to-order specifications. With these new workbench applications, OnePointe Solutions bolsters its position as a top provider of high-performance workstations that can enhance productivity across all industries.
“Our innovative workspace solutions enable our clients to have the ability to maximize space and adjust to workflow, which can translate to sizable savings on real estate costs and an increase in employee productivity,” comments Aaron Boto, CEO of OnePointe Solutions, LLC. The company offers a wide array of materials in their workbench products, including plastic laminate, stainless steel, chemical resistant and ESD laminate, maple block, laboratory grade phenolic and epoxy resin.
In terms of laboratory solutions, OnePointe Solutions has also assembled work tables, wall units, laboratory islands, and even modular carts that are suitable for all laboratories. Mike Triche, Chief Operating Officer for OnePointe Solutions, LLC said, “Customers can now view and search for task specific products right on the website such as microscope tables and heavy duty laboratory workbenches that can withstand the daily demands of their laboratory or technical facility.”
In addition to custom-made workbenches, OnePointe Solutions also provides custom designed technical or laboratory furniture. OnePointe offers a wide range of technology hardware and bench related accessories that can easily integrate into the workstation for optimal performance. Items such as LCD monitors, monitor arms, monitor rails, servers, CPU’s, printers, webcams, TV’s, bin rails, magnifying lamps, special steel drawers, mobile storage solutions and overhead lighting just to name a few.
OnePointe Solutions also provides a variety of stainless steel solutions that are NSF-certified and clean room-ready. Their products are constructed to help their customers meet specific material-handling requirements in the food service and healthcare industries. (food zone certifications like NSF 51, for example). Using stainless steel clean room product that is specifically designed for electronics and healthcare manufacturing companies, OnePointe Solutions provides clean room-ready tables built using solid or perforated tops that can either have a brushed or electropolished finish. Workbenches in this category are made with 14 gauge stainless steel and are alcohol wiped and bagged for shipment.
About OnePointe Solutions, LLC
OnePointe Solutions is a one-stop shop for technical furniture and custom workbenches. In addition to being a custom manufacturer, the company represents nearly 1,000 technology manufacturers and more than 600,000 products that can be integrated into workbenches and used in laboratories, light or heavy manufacturing, clean rooms, and food and healthcare industries and office environments.
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OnePointe Solutions LLC
13091 Pond Springs Rd. Ste. 400
Austin, TX. 78729
Tel: 866.612.7312
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