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The world’s largest exporter of roses is an Indian firm, Karuturi Global, which has leased 3,000 square kilometers of land in Ethiopia. I talked today about globalization and the price system using Valentine’s Day and the rose market as a jumping off point. I spoke at the Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics at NMIMS […]

Cloud services provider DigitalOcean has launched Load Balancers, a service for customers to use to distribute traffic across their infrastructure to achieve 100 percent uptime for their production workloads. “Delivery will be easy,” said Ben Uretsky, DigialOcean’s CEO in an interview in San Francisco. “Essentially you pull in three fields and you’re up and running.” Load Balancers are…

Searching through logs and remoting to a machine to check it's load is not a fun thing to do. This is why I've decided to look for a centralized logging service. And what I've chosen.

Python is a relatively nice, friendly programming language. I don’t have any quarrel with it. In fact, I love it in combination with web2py…

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Load balancing, simplified. Scale your apps and improve availability, security and performance across your infrastructure.

As part of our special coverage on the future of journalism, we rounded up some of the best podcasts on the media business.

About a decade ago, a handful of Google's most talented engineers started building a system that seems to defy logic.

Amazon Chime lets users meet and chat online, and the Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add audio and video collaboration to their applications.

How to map out a plan for finding value in data.

There’s an irresistible allure to the concept of fuck-you money: Being able to tell anyone off for any reason without risking your livelihood. What’s not to love about such audacious freedom? But i…

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Nobody wants to be told their views are oversimplified. So, when thinking about issues, we tend to try to include as many factors as possible. The more nuanced our views become, the less likely they can be attacked for missing something important. But are more nuanced ways of thinking about a problem actually more useful? […]

Self-portraits in the 1400s were created for the same reasons we take selfies today.

The Book of Circles is an upcoming book by Manuel Lima about the use of circles in information design. In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively

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Frank Lloyd Wright was never one to shy away from making grand statements about architecture, like: “The future of architecture is the future of the human race. The two are one. If humanity has a future, it is architecture.” He also saw himself as vital to this essential industry: “I’ve been accused of saying I was

Find out how to unit-test processing topologies of Kafka Streams with Mocked Streams for Scala.

That a leak is illegal does not mean it deserves punishment. Oftentimes, the most just acts are precisely the ones that the law prohibits.

Security experts skeptical of encrypted messenger's claims

It's all cloudy, innit?

A guest piece by Yuli Ban.