Physical cloud.

Add this to the "things you should use Heroku instead of" bucket.

Rackspace committing to their DNS API being free.

(Dumping GitHub watches into Pinboard.)

Clojure-based declare-and-provision framework.

Distributed computing project from Berkeley. "...build systems that are OOM bigger than are building today, with OOM less effort than traditional programming methodologies."

This shit is out of control.

Some good, if a bit obvious, advice on operable cloud infrastructure. "Manage your systems from outside the cloud," is one I'm not so sure about, as it implies a more permeable firewall and/or more directly Internet-accessible system components, which may not be an option for many companies because of, among other things, PCI-DSS standards.

Plugs for Puppet are always good, too.

Ubuntu's cloud provisioning stuff seems pretty polished.

Which of these clouds is not like the other?

Holy hard disks, batman!

Teh cloud.