Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
I have already written about Scalr in the past, but at the AWS user group I gave a short presentation about Scalr and why I think it is an important development in the area of Cloud Computing for startup and early stage companies.
Here are the slides of the presentation:
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
In a constant effort to explain cloud computing to my non-technical friends I try to use analogy's and examples like the slash dot story or the what if I had more data story. Here is another one....which I paraphrased from TechTarget.com.
Useful analogy for cloud computing is RAID, redundant arrays of ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Cloud Computing was once looked upon by enterprise users as a purely academic and perhaps unlikely to be deployed in mission critical situations. It usually takes years for new technologies to be adopted by the enterprise….and often enterprises are criticised for prolonging the use of old but trusted and perhaps ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
It had been predicted for over 12 months and eventually arrived last night. Google have released their reply to the Amazon AWS range of services. Google App Engine will allow developers to run their Web applications on the search giant’s computing cloud.
This new service is nowhere close to Amazon’s AWS ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
About a year ago I was tasked with the job of building a spam scanning environment on EC2. Due to the unpredictability of email traffic the system had to be scalable, redundant and self curing…. all the things that would have been unaffordable in the pre-EC2 eara. The process took ...
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