My talented brother, Tim Watrous, has worked in the advertising industry for nearly 15 years now. His background started on the technical side, but he quickly found his strengths in the larger scope of marrying the business to a best possible advertising solution. He and I often talk shop and tonight we got on the topic cloud computing. I mentioned some of my experience with the two most prominent platforms available, Google App Engine (GAE) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The following details come from an email that I drafted for him to......
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Over the weekend I put together a project as a precursor to an interview. I really like interviews where I have a chance to solve a problem that’s more meaningful than generating a random number efficiently. The pre-interview question came in the form of a sketch of the application. This worked out great since I suggest always starting with a sketch drawn by hand. Here’s what they wanted: Choice of technology The instructions indicated that I could use any technology that I was familiar with, as long as I included the libraries necessary......
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