Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'cloud'

"Newsweek, under a cloud, is going to the cloud. The site is outsourcing its Web site hosting duties to Amazon, joining a small but growing number of companies experimenting with cloud computing.

Until now, Newsweek.com had been hosted by its parent company, The Washington Post Co. The media company has been trying to cut losses at its magazine division, which recorded $29.3 million in operating losses in 2009. By joining the cloud, Newsweek expects to save close to $500,000 annually."

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april 2010 by sogrady

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Ballmer: Microsoft ‘Betting Our Company’ On The Cloud | paidContent

with multiple datacenters at a half a billion per, plus a major marketing offense to match, i think was probably obvious. still, interesting that Ballmer's so explicit.

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march 2010 by sogrady

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happiness is a warm cloud
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march 2010 by sogrady

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Eric Day - Blog – Drizzling from the Rackspace Cloud

interesting hire for Rackspace. Mark Callaghan apparently agrees

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march 2010 by sogrady

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Tech.view: Cloudy with a chance of rain | The Economist

The Economist: Few companies are ready to accept cloud computing #cloud

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march 2010 by sogrady

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Announcing the Drawn-to-Scale Platform! | Road to Failure

large scale data analytics, indexing and search...as a service. spoke with Bradford a week or two ago, and as i told him, this is an interesting proposition. as more folks realize the need for big data processing, the value of such services only goes up.

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march 2010 by sogrady

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The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ « Data Center Knowledge

a peak inside Weta's datacenter

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january 2010 by sogrady

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William Vambenepe — Cloud + proprietary software = ♥

very late with this, but a nice piece from William Vambenepe on how the cloud can obscure proprietary software costs

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january 2010 by sogrady

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blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Why did we take reddit down for 71 minutes?

"As most of you know, we moved reddit to EC2 back in May of 2009. Our experience there has been excellent so far. Since we moved to EC2, the number of unique users has gone up 50%, and pageviews are up more than 100%. To support this growth, we have added 30% more ram and 50% more CPU, yet because of Amazon's constant price reductions, we are actually paying less per month now than when we started."

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Windows & Red Hat pricing on Amazon EC2 vs. on-premise « rand($thoughts);

"Holding the product version and support level constant across an on-premise license and Amazon EC2 instance, the price premium of Windows vs. RHEL, if X% for on-premise, will be less than X% on the Amazon cloud. Said differently, the license cost differential between proprietary and open source products narrows in the cloud."

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Google App Engine vs Windows Azure

one comparison of the tools

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november 2009 by sogrady

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EC2StartersGuide - Community Ubuntu Documentation

just what it says: very nice piece of documentation

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB - MongoDB

Mongo compares itself to Couch: two next generation database options

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november 2009 by sogrady

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82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

"When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months."

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november 2009 by sogrady

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blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Moving to the cloud

"Last week we also decommissioned the last of our physical servers. We are now operating our entire website "in the cloud" as the kids would say. Specifically, we are using Amazon Web Services. If all went well, you didn't notice a thing."

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm?

"Kudos to Amazon. Having them run a database service won't provide the "high end" sort of usage that keeps the folks who tune databases in business, but there certainly are a lot of users for whom this type of service will work just fine.

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november 2009 by sogrady

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litl webbook: some technical comments « Lucas Rocha

the technologies that went into litl - lots of clutter, not surprisingly. javascript too.

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Heroku vs EngineYard Cloud vs Joyent - blog.eliotsykes.com

interesting look at some of the specialized cloud hosting options from a user's perspective

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Guest Post: Yahoo's Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server

interesting new contribution to open source: load balancing and more.

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Code Monkeyism: The dark side of NoSQL

the tools definitely have their limitations, but a lot of that is lifecycle rather than intrinsic flaws in the approach

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Why we moved away from “the cloud” to a “real” server « Boxed Ice Blog

interesting cloud vs self-hosted use case with numbers

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september 2009 by sogrady

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Deltacloud | Many Clouds. One API. No Problem.

more on this one soon. lots of moving pieces in this space at the moment, but an interesting project

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september 2009 by sogrady

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Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud - PC World

which begs the question: is that the right decision?

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august 2009 by sogrady

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appscale - Project Hosting on Google Code

more and more folks are discovering this project

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august 2009 by sogrady

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Why Google Wave makes Tim Bray nervous • The Register

can't say i agree with Tim on Wave, but his thoughts are - as always - worth listening to

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Force.com IDE Installation for Eclipse 3.2.x - developer.force.com

good to see the Force.com folks not reinventing the wheel

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june 2009 by sogrady

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Technology Review: Industry Challenges: The Standards Question

"Mike Evans, vice president of corporate development at the open-source technology provider Red Hat, compares clouds today to the earliest online communities, such as CompuServe and America Online. "They were all siloed communities," he says. "You couldn't necessarily interoperate with anybody else until the openness of the Internet came along." Evans believes that open-source projects are "critical" to establishing standards that would encourage more companies to use cloud technology.

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june 2009 by sogrady

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CohesiveFT - Cloud API Comparison

great resource from the CohesiveFT folks on the available APIs

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may 2009 by sogrady

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ongoing · The Sun Cloud

a nutty schedule has prevented me from talking direct w/ Tim about this, sadly, but it looks interesting. need to write it up after getting the walkthrough.

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march 2009 by sogrady

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Sun Microsystems - Employment

anyone want to work on Drizzle?

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january 2009 by sogrady

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How Green is Cloud Computing?

i got asked that question while speaking at TechMaine last week, and while i don't have any more data on the subject than Tom, i suspect the answer is: considerably more green. why? because the incentives are so much greater. when deploying machines in the dozens or even hundreds, the economies of scale that green operations present are dramatically less apparent than they would be if you're implementing datacenters of thousands of machines. the incentive to be green, therefore, is much greater for cloud providers because the potential cost savings in power, cooling, etc are that much greater. for example, consider Microsoft's recent datacenter build out, which uses Blackbox-like cargo container units that are highly efficient in their power usage and cooling factor.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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HP dismisses cloud 'hype' | Tech News on ZDNet

"Rather than jump in to the hype [around cloud computing] out of the gate — you can't pick up a newspaper or a technology magazine today without reading about the cloud — we have been very deliberate over the past nine months, assessing where we think the cloud can help us", Hogan said.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: Cloud Standardization: Unified Cloud Interface (UCI)

XMPP as a cloud interface component? sounds good to me

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Microsoft to Google: Get Off of My Cloud - BusinessWeek

what's more challenging - innately, or from a talent acquisition standpoint - scaling, or selling to enterprises?

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Cloud-computing zombies for $299 per month | Tech News on ZDNet

the dark side of cloud computing

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Windows Azure from a Developer's Perspective

one perspective on Azure

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Openness is not enough

"We can (and will) have debates about the relative openness of Azure and AWS and Force.com and all the other "cloud platforms" that are available or will be available. And those will be important debates. But in this early stage of the cloud's development, openness means little to the buyer (or user). The buyers, particularly those in big companies, are nervous about the cloud even as they are becoming increasingly eager to reap the benefits the cloud can provide. What they care about right now is security, reliability, features, compatibility with their existing systems and applications, ease of adoption, stability of the vendor, and other practical concerns. In the long run, they may come to regret their lack of stress on openness, but in the here-and-now it's just not a major consideration. They want stuff that works and won't blow up in their faces." - agreed

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Amazon's new EC2 SLA - O'Reilly Radar

"If the entire EC2 service is down a cumulative four hours and twenty minutes, customers must furnish proof of the outage to Amazon to be eligible for the 10% credit. This seems like an onerous process for very little compensation, and isn't in-line with Amazon's famous "Relentless Customer Obsession"." - getting to this late, but worth a read

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

just what it says

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Sam on the Azure details

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Lauren Cooney's Blog: Welcome Azure! Q&A from the Experts

good Q&A. still a little marketing-ish (do we really need the full Azure Services Platform treatment in each answer? ;), but informative.

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Amazon Web Services Blog: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities

yup, we'll have a lot more on this. you heard it here last!

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Aleksey Aristov : Weblog

"Cloud Studio with OSGi support is finally out. Now it is possible to upload your bundles into S3 based bundle repository and create an instance profile (similiar to "Run Configuration" in Eclipse). After profile is created, an EC2 instance that hosts OSGi framework with required bundles can be launched." - late with this, but it's interesting nonetheless.

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october 2008 by sogrady

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FOWA 08: Todd Fast of Zembly - the first development environment in the cloud

Zembly interview from FOWA

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october 2008 by sogrady

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Cloud(s), Hype, and Freedom | Freedom to Tinker

nice commentary from Luis on cloud freedoms

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october 2008 by sogrady

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John Sequeira's Weblog

"I can't get past the fact that there's no SQL. I know why there's no SQL, (Brewer's Conjecture etc) and I have some experience with it. I've been doing years of mostly-simple mashup stuff with quickbase, which is a similar PaaS-backing non-relational data store. It has it's place, but it's hard to imagine really cranking out something complicated with it. When I do code reviews for clients, the biggest improvements come from transforming procedural cursor logic back into set-oriented db-logic, and AppEngine wants you to go the opposite direction. Sigh."

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Cloud versus cloud: A guided tour of Amazon, Google, AppNexus, and GoGrid | InfoWorld | Review | 2008-07-21 | By Peter Wayner

reviews of various cloud services

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Twitter / Tim O'Reilly: @bryce Reminds me of when C...

yes, precisely

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august 2008 by sogrady

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TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center

i don't agree with all of this, and i'm loathe to see another Web x.x meme get started, but there are some very legitimate conclusions being drawn herein

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Sun girds its grid for cloud business spin out | The Register

the spin out terminology is a bit misleading, since what this is rather is a change in the reporting structure

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Red Hat's new CEO aims Linux at the cloud | Business Tech - CNET News.com

interesting interview with Whitehurst on a number of levels

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august 2008 by sogrady

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AT&T to Be Provider Of 'Cloud Computing' - WSJ.com

interesting. one assume, however, that they'll be competing with the likes of IBM rather than, primarily, the Amazons or GAEs of the world.

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august 2008 by sogrady

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IBM muddying the Cloud? | Negative Approach - CNET News.com

"One key missing piece from all of the press around IBM's Cloud building initiatives is what exactly they are going to offer." - agreed

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Eucalyptus: An Unsung Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing | OStatic

potential standards related project within the cloud space? if any of the Eucalyptus folks read this, please get in touch. love to chat.

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Cloud Computing; the Invisible Infostructure | CTO Blog | Capgemini | Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing

interesting that Cap Gemini is thinking about this so deeply

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Microsoft's cloud forms | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-08 | By Eric Knorr

ok start, long way to go

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july 2008 by sogrady

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The New York Times Archives + Amazon Web Services = TimesMachine - Open - Code - New York Times Blog

the Times has some very good people working for it at the moment

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july 2008 by sogrady

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SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds - Integration and Cloud Computing

integration will indeed be a challenge, as will standards v lock-in

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Yahoo! Establishes Cloud Computing Division (finally!) | Negative Approach - CNET News.com

so Yahoo's going to play in the space as well

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july 2008 by sogrady

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CloudStatus® Powered by Hyperic

oooooohh, shiny

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june 2008 by sogrady

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We're all ops people now

yes we are, but there are many who'd prefer not to be

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june 2008 by sogrady

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William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Google App Engine: less is more

"History is rarely kind to promoters of radical departures. The software industry is especially fond of layering the new on top of the old...Will Google beat the odds or be forced to be more accommodating of existing code?"

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june 2008 by sogrady

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SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)

"I really don’t want to operate datacenters anymore despite the fact that we’re pretty good at it. It’s a necessary evil because we’re an Internet company, but our mission is to be the best photo sharing site." - Skynet = their GAE abstraction lay

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Introducing Vertebra

there's a reason so many smart people are making long bets on XMPP

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june 2008 by sogrady

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MOSSO :: The Hosting Cloud - Home

interesting that Rackspace created a new brand for this

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Joyeur: Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.

wherein the Joyent gang proposes a scoring system for would-be cloud players

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Ma.tt » Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage

"Infrastructure can be a competitive advantage today — the speed and reliability of WordPress.com has certainly put us in a favorable light with users, especially large customers — but that’s going to disappear over time."

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may 2008 by sogrady

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