Category Archives: Technology

Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

June 22, 2009 – 09:15

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop provide an alternative mechanism for storing and processing large sets of data that don’t necessarily [...]

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DNS-as-a-Service + Dynect Review

May 26, 2009 – 11:04

Domain Name Service (DNS) is a crucial part of the cloud infrastructure stack that is often overlooked. All Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers today deliver it in some form, from Amazon’s automated, but unconfigurable service to GoGrid’s manual, but highly configurable service. Fortunately, while compute clouds are new to this game, there are some old hands [...]

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GoGrid Scalability Whitepaper

May 15, 2009 – 22:33

Quick repost of the Scalability Whitepaper I wrote for GoGrid to make sure that my readers can find it easily.  It can sometimes be difficult to find on the GoGrid website, but I’m working on that as well.  ;)
GoGrid — Scaling Your Internet Business
Publish at Scribd or explore others: [...]

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GoGrid .NET SDK Updated

May 2, 2009 – 11:53

Mitch Denny, a member of the GoGrid developer community, stepped up and took over maintenance of the GoGrid .NET SDK.  He’s just released a new version that updates to support the latest GoGrid API features including jobs and pagination.  You can also find Mitch on twitter.
Thanks Mitch!

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The “Open” Cloud is Coming

April 28, 2009 – 14:24

The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started.  From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary.  This is a fundamentally misguided understanding.
Where ever you stand on ‘free markets’, there is no doubt that market forces play a major role in [...]

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