Scalability Perspectives #5: Werner Vogels – The Amazon Technology Platform via High Scalability – Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. by geekr on 12/30/08 Read the rest of this entry »
Scalability Perspectives – Werner Vogels – Amazon
December 31st, 2008Porting a service to AWS
December 31st, 2008An example of scaling a service using AWS Read the rest of this entry »
Top 25 Enterprise Hosting and Virtualization Providers
December 31st, 2008Some links to reasonably comprehensive feature descriptions, pricing models, and philosophy for each of the offerings. A great starting point for an engineering trade study. Read the rest of this entry »
Developer Games
December 31st, 2008Some descriptions of games to add incentive to development team activity… Read the rest of this entry »
Enterprises Using Google Apps Cloud
December 30th, 2008Enterprises Reach for the Cloud via LinuxInsider by Michael Liedtke on 12/28/08 Read the rest of this entry »
UC Berkely Spam Analysis
December 29th, 2008Managing Abundance
December 29th, 2008Discounting the fact that he’s wrong though about the reason for the failure of the music industry, some really interesting points. Read the rest of this entry »
Evolutionary Software and Beauty
December 29th, 2008A Disconnect Between IT and Business
December 29th, 2008In a long but good thread at the-enterprise-architecture-network Google group, Cliff makes an important point Read the rest of this entry »
Organizing Database Keys for Scalability
December 29th, 2008Via highscalability.com Read the rest of this entry »
Cloud Maturity Models Related to SOA Maturity Models – ZapThink
December 25th, 2008Cloud Maturity Models Don’t Make Sense via ZapThink on 12/24/08. Read the rest of this entry »
Correcting Latency Problems with Java Real Time System (JRTS)
December 23rd, 2008Great article about a proof of concept effort with the real-time JVM…
Real-time JVM PoC
Introducing Zes3t 0.1
December 17th, 2008We here at createTank utilize Amazon’s S3 web service for our offsite backups and content storage. We’re also big fans of the Python language for writing administration scripts. Recently, we needed to perform some simple administrative tasks on our offsite data, and found that the available Python S3 APIs didn’t give us some of the features that we needed. To scratch this itch, we wrote out own API and have made it available for others to use. Read the rest of this entry »