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Basho | The All New
My initial thought is "Enterprise Park Place" but this seems pretty cool. There's a little circle of life going on here as well: Riak was inspired by Dynamo, which has been quietly powering S3 for years.
cloud  storage  riak  basho 
9 weeks ago by mcroydon
OpenShift by Red Hat
I don't know what's going on here but LOOK CUTE ANIMALS!
cloud  deployment  paas  java  ruby  python 
11 weeks ago by mcroydon
Elastician: Creating an EBS-backed AMI from an S3-backed AMI
Creating new instances based on snapshots of EBS-backed EC2 instances.
amazon  aws  cloud  ec2  ebs 
october 2011 by mcroydon
Cloudroulette — Your new cloud-based hosting service
I'm not sure if there's something useful below the snark or not.
cloud  hosting  humor 
september 2011 by mcroydon
DotCloud - Deployment made simple
"DotCloud lets you create the best cloud stack for your application. We give developers and IT professionals the freedom and flexibility to mix and match languages, databases, caching and messaging components without the need for additional servers or infrastructure."
cloud  cloudcomputing  development  hosting  php 
september 2011 by mcroydon
SmartOS.org
A fix for the "My OS isn't open enough" bug.
cloud  cloudcomputing  dtrace 
august 2011 by mcroydon
Architecting for the Cloud: demo and best practices, by Simone Brun...
While not particularly new, this looks like a solid overview of designing for failure in the cloud.
architecture  aws  cloud  design  hosting 
july 2011 by mcroydon
AWS Architecture Center
Designing for failure and redundancy.
amazon  architecture  aws  cloud 
april 2011 by mcroydon
The Cloud is not a Silver Bullet – stu.mp
Solid thoughts on how to do it right in the cloud.
cloud  engineering  system  amazon  aws  ec2  ebs 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Coping With Cloud Downtime | Backdrift
Being able to go from vanilla image to your custom server is key. Automate, whether it's puppet, chef, or a bash script.
backup  cloud  deployment  ec2  puppet 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Why the AWS Crash is a Good Thing. | SignNow
"The cloud computing world is in crisis and its a good thing for everyone in the long term."
aws  cloud  ec2  ebs 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS CloudFormation - Create Your AWS Stack From a Recipe
I love that the focus of this tool is to make it easier for you to get your job done and consume the underlying AWS services.
aws  amazon  web-service  cloud 
february 2011 by mcroydon
Dydra
A hosted RDF store. Invite requested.
cloud  rdf  semanticweb 
february 2011 by mcroydon
OpenTSDB - A Distributed, Scalable Monitoring System
OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB) written on top of HBase. OpenTSDB was written to address a common need: store, index and serve metrics collected from computer systems (network gear, operating systems, applications) at a large scale, and make this data easily accessible and graphable.
analysis  architecture  bigdata  cloud  data  database  db  java  lgpl  hbase  hadoop  development  graph  distributed  monitoring  nosql  opensource  operations  scalability  scale  time  sysadmin  software  storage  series  opentsdb  rrd  stumbleupon  time-series  timeseries 
november 2010 by mcroydon
s4: distributed stream computing platform
"S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data."
apache  bigdata  cloud  cloudcomputing  cluster  computing  mapreduce  map  java  hadoop  framework  distributed  data  opensource  processing  platform  programming  real-time  streaming  stream  software  scalability  reduce  realtime  streamprocessing  yahoo  tool  s4  streams 
november 2010 by mcroydon
SHARD Triple-Store
"SHARD is a proof-of-concept use of high-performance, low-cost distributed computing technology to develop a highly scalable triple-store. SHARD is released as an open-source project on the BSD license."
database  db  cloud  distributed  hadoop  lubm  mapreduce  rdf  store  sparql  storage  shard  semweb  semanticweb  scalability  triple-store 
october 2010 by mcroydon
Stashboard: The open source status dashboard
"Stashboard is designed to provide a generic status dashboard for any hosted service or API. The code can be downloaded, customized, and run on any Google App Engine account."
api  app  appengine  cloud  dashboard  cloudcomputing  googleappengine  google  gae  free  django  design  monitoring  open-source  opensource  python  saas  rest  twilio  tracking  tools  status  sysadmin  software  service  uptime  web  webdev 
july 2010 by mcroydon
How to encode all of your videos, quickly and cheaply! | PiCloud Blog
Using ffmpeg and picloud to parallelize your encoding. It requires knowing your input formats pretty well though.
and  blog  article  cloud  convert  howto  code  cloud-computing  ffmpeg  encoding  encode  development  programming  server  python  transcoding  video  videos  web  media  webdevelopment  webdev  picloud 
july 2010 by mcroydon
What Is Google Editions? - Culture - The Atlantic
Ebooks are definitely poised for a tipping point.
blog  books  cloud  google  header  toread  ebooks 
july 2010 by mcroydon
AWS Import/Export
A station wagon full of backup tapes now has an API.
amazon  aws  bigdata  beta  backup  cloud  cloud_computing  service  s3  large  import  export  ec2  data  cloudcomputing  storage  tools  carrier  sneakernet  transfer 
june 2010 by mcroydon
Principles for Standardized REST Authentication - O'Reilly Broadcast
I want to live in this fantasty world where RESTful authentication isn't so hard or repetitive.
api  architecture  auth  authentication  dev  cloud  development  restful  rest  read  programming  patterns  oauth  http  distributed  security  soa  soap  toread  webservices 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Why Europe’s Largest Ad Targeting Platform Uses Hadoop « Cloudera » Apache Hadoop for the Enterprise
Moving from Postgres to HDFS + Pig and MapReduce for large data storage, analysis, and aggregation.
clojure  data  cloud  database  development  hadoop  mapreduce  web  nosql 
march 2010 by mcroydon
ianb / toppcloud / overview — bitbucket.org
"just enough" cloud deployment. I want to read more.
python  tools  cloud  deployment  gae  automation 
january 2010 by mcroydon
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ « Data Center Knowledge
"The system now occupies spot 193 through 197 in the Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers."
data  graphics  sysadmin  computing  movie  movies  3d  cloud  film  it  rendering  datacenter  supercomputer  cinema  ops  hpc  avatar  datacenters  weta 
december 2009 by mcroydon
Avro: a Format for Big Data » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog
Another data interchange format (I think) like ProtocolBuffers and Thrift. I think one of the bigger problems that the Hadoop/big data community has is parallel internal implementations of building blocks that are later open-sourced.
data  database  storage  distributed  hadoop  apache  cloud  json  messaging  encoding  protocol  portable  cloudera  bigdata  data-structures  serialization  format  foss  thrift  buffers  introduction  avro 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Journal of Eivind Uggedal: NoSQL East 2009 - Summary of Day 1
Some interesting bits and more of the same but I really like the dark-launch approach that Scribe allows.
data  database  toread  blog  scalability  internet  distributed  article  hadoop  scaling  db  cloud  couchdb  conference  papers  keyvalue  nosql  links  cassandra  2009  mongodb  dynomite  riak 
november 2009 by mcroydon
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
A pretty fantastic DIY solution to massive storage. I kinda wonder what the failure rate is on a configuration such as this.
design  linux  hardware  database  opensource  technology  amazon  server  diy  computer  storage  sysadmin  cool  s3  aws  debian  open  cloud  infrastructure  custom  cheap  backblaze  hard  drive  harddrives 
september 2009 by mcroydon
Thread: Does Amazon EC2 meet PCI Compliance guidelines?
While Amazon's cloud is reasonably secure, it'll never reach PCI Level 1 compliance. So don't save or store credit card information on EC2 or S3.
amazon  security  s3  ecommerce  ec2  cloud  processing  payment  PCI 
august 2009 by mcroydon
NASA NEBULA - Cloud Computing
It looks like they've selected some good tech including Eucalyptus, Solr, and Varnish.
research  opensource  internet  distributed  computing  cloud  space  virtualization  nasa  computerscience  cloudcomputing  enterprise  platform  computer_science  capacity  nebula 
july 2009 by mcroydon
katta - distributed lucene
"Katta serves large, replicated, Lucene indexes as shards to serve high loads and very large data sets."
software  development  java  search  scalability  performance  scaling  distributed  apache  hadoop  clustering  cloud  grid  lucene  tool  indexing  project  ir  searchengine  information-retrieval  dist  package  hdfs  katta 
june 2009 by mcroydon
Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop | Cloudera
Includes lots of feature tickets that are pretty stable but not yet in a Hadoop release. It reminds me a lot of Debian unstable or Ubuntu a month or so before release. Good stuff indeed. Includes RPM and APT package management options.
software  data  linux  google  search  aws  distributed  computing  ec2  hadoop  cloud  mapreduce  cloudcomputing  distribution  clusters  packaging  cloudera  cloud-computing  rpm  apt 
june 2009 by mcroydon
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