Submitted for your reading pleasure on this beautiful blue sky, birds chirping Friday morning: * Unlocked Achievements: Twitter: 900,000 Apps, 600,000 Developers And 13 Billion API Requests Per Day; Rackspace Now Has 70,000 Servers * Quotable Quotes for the speed of light Alex: * @LusciousPear According to everyone I talk
Paper
Mind the Gap: Reconnecting Architecture and OS Research is a paper presented at HotOS XIII, the place where researchers talk about making potential futures happen. For a great overview of the conference take a look at this article by Matt Welsh: Conference report: HotOS 2011 in Napa. In the VM/
Monitoring
Production Monitoring is about ensuring the stability and health of our system, that also includes the application. A lot of times we encounter production systems that concentrate on System Monitoring, under the assumption that a stable system leads to stable and healthy applications. So let’s see what System Monitoring
Example
Viddler is in the high quality Video as a Service business for a customer who wants to pay a fixed cost, be done with it, and just have it work. Similar to Blip and Ooyala, more focussed on business than YouTube. They serve thousands of business customers, including high traffic
hot links
Submitted for your reading pleasure...Hi Mom!... * We don't need no stinking servers says the W3C. This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C by Marshall Kirkpatrick. Browsers talking to directly to other browsers. Marshall is right, this could be very big. * Quotable Quotes for
Paper
With BigData comes BigStorage costs. One way to store less is simply not to store the same data twice. That's the radically simple and powerful notion behind data deduplication. If you are one of those who got a good laugh out of the idea of eliminating SQL queries
hot links
Who's Hiring? * MathWorks Looking for Multiple, Full-time Scaling Experts. Apply now: http://matlab.my/lVmunb * Gazillion Entertainment is looking for a Web Developer Generalist to work on massively multiplayer online games. Please apply here. * Edmunds.com helps people find the car that meets their every need. We’re
amazon
Since The Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage was published we've a had few updates that people might not have seen. Amazon of course released their Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region. Netlix shared their Lessons Learned
Strategy
The most common complaint against NoSQL is that if you know how to write good SQL queries then SQL works fine. If SQL is slow you can always tune it and make it faster. A great example of this incremental improvement process was written up by StackExchange's Sam
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region * A network change was performed as part of our normal AWS scaling activities in a single Availability Zone in the US East Region. The configuration change was to upgrade the capacity of the primary network.
gigaspaces
Yesterday, I had a session during the OpenStack Summit where I tried to present a more general view on how we should be thinking about PaaS in the context of OpenStack. The key takeaway : The main goal of PaaS is to drive productivity into the process by which we can
Strategy
In Resolved: Widespread Application Outage, Heroku tells their story of how they dealt with the Amazon outage. While taking 100% responsibility for the downtime, they also shared a number of the strategies they used to bring their service back to full working order. One of Heroku's most interesting