The Official Rackspace Blog » JJ Casas http://www.rackspace.com/blog The Official Rackspace Blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:00:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rackspace Takes a Look at the ERLANG Language http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-takes-a-look-at-the-erlang-language/ http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-takes-a-look-at-the-erlang-language/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:21:01 +0000 JJ Casas http://www.rackspace.com/blog/?p=28328 In this interview with Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding, two of the co-creators of the Erlang programming language, Duncan McGreggor, Sr. Engineering Manager at Rackspace gets a journey through Erlang’s background, look at its strengths, and ponder the future of computing in a distributed world.

Joe: http://www.sics.se/~joe/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joeerl

Robert: https://github.com/rvirding?tab=repositories
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rvirding

Duncan: http://cogitat.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oubiwann

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So that leak in your kitchen that started in the morning can now find a highly reviewed and qualified local plumber in a matter of minutes, book one in seconds, see the estimated arrival, and ultimately have that leak fixed within a couple of hours.

http://reachlocal.com
http://twitter.com/reachlocal

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For instance, how are sensors, wearable computers, big data, social data, and location data changing Silicon Valley business? We keep hearing big changes are ahead so we went and visited Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape to talk about the future of the tech industry. He’s on the boards of HP, Facebook, and many others and is largely seen as one of the best investors on Sand Hill Road now. http://a16z.com is where you learn more about his VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz http://a16z.com

Some things we learned: “we are going to have a virtual overlay on the real world.”

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Dave Fowler, Founder and CEO, explains that Chartio makes setting up a dashboard easy by integrating with your existing data securely including MySQL, Amazon Web Services RDS, Rackspace Cloud Databases, Salesforce, and Google Analytics.  Today Chartio announced support for Salesforce making it easy to see your Salesforce data in real-time and alongside other data sources. Besides charting your data, Chartio is setting out to make your data as stunning as it can be with its great interactive dashboard.

http://chartio.com
http://twitter.com/chartio

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https://mixpanel.com/
https://twitter.com/mixpanel

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http://nestivity.com
https://twitter.com/nestivity

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AgilONE’s CEO Omer Artun explains how it uses data management, marketing intelligence and predictive analysis to become a marketer’s solution and not just a tool. With its smart features, it provides marketers the ability to pinpoint their campaigns to the customers they really want.

http://agilone.com
https://twitter.com/AgilOne/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/AgilOne/180947681989849

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http://www.tellagence.com/
http://twitter.com/tellagence
https://www.facebook.com/Tellagence
http://www.youtube.com/tellagenceinc

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Rabbit ensures a high quality experience with features such as echo cancellation, unlimited chat rooms and the ability to share practically anything to each other. Rooms can be created to study together, watch a television show, listen to a music album and much more. Because anything can be shared, watching a movie or Youtube clip from one laptop to another device or reviewing a PDF is all possible.

Currently in private beta, Rabbit is available for Mac and will be soon to be available on other platforms and mobile devices.

http://rabb.it
http://twitter.com/letsrabbit
http://facebook.com/letsrabbit

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Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax talks about how and why top companies and many startups use DataStax for its reliability and continuous data availability.

http://www.datastax.com/
https://twitter.com/datastax
https://www.facebook.com/datastax

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