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wilkes

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Editorial note

There was a great talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management) re: Omega in 2011 at Google Faculty Summit [1].

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Quick take

A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wilkes.

noun

A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

noun

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Example sentences

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There was a great talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management) re: Omega in 2011 at Google Faculty Summit [1].

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Note John Wilkes was generally careful about not saying the name was 'Borg' or acknowledging it as such and instead referred to 'Omega'.

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A $35 trip home from the Sydney CBD to Coogee cost Jade Wilkes $213 with an Uber car service on New Year's Eve.

4

From John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis to Pinkerton and Harriet Tubman.

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I'd strongly recommend folks interested in this stuff to read the Omega paper [1] or to watch the Wilkes video [2].

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When I heard John Wilkes speak recently it sounded as if Google was actually intentioned on moving to libcontainer (but not full fledged Docker).

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Look at the contributions of people like John Backus, Edgar Codd or Maurice Wilkes and of course Kernighan and Ritchie, those people (to me) are worth far more respect.

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There is an amazing talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management, Mountain View) about Omega at Google Faculty Summit 2011 [2], I would highly recommend watching it!

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There is an amazing talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management, Mountain View) about Omega at Google Faculty Summit 2011 [3], I would highly recommend watching it!

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Briefly, Google is in the process of open sourcing their internal container code [2], there was a Wired article that talked about their container orchestration system [3], and finally, there was John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management), who talks about the container management system [4].

Quote examples

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Google's John Wilkes even does a talk, entitle "Cluster management at Google" [4], where he discusses the next generation of the orchestration engine.

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And that's only looking at the character's own "choices." (Is it really a choice if you can't stop yourself from becoming John Wilkes Booth?) The cruelty inflicted by nature would be much greater.

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I can only think of one concrete case off the top of my head, so here: >The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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John Wilkes of Google puts it this way: "Our own experience has been that allowing our developers unfettered access to the internals of infrastructure systems has been a problem, and we're moving away from that model as fast as we can.

Proper noun examples

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According to Wilkes, Google plans to publish a research paper on Borg (though he still won’t use the name).

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— Maurice Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press, 1985, p.

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Even back in the 18th century the question about freedom of speech and the citizen’s right to know what was happening in the halls of its parliament was fought and won by journalist and MP John Wilkes.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use wilkes in a sentence?

There was a great talk by John Wilkes (Google Cluster Management) re: Omega in 2011 at Google Faculty Summit [1].

What does wilkes mean?

A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

What part of speech is wilkes?

wilkes is commonly used as noun.