Tag Archives: Automation

The Secret Sauce Problem

July 18, 2009 – 20:25

The vast majority of web applications have what I call The Secret Sauce Problem.  Every commercial web service of any kind needs to be differentiated in order to be interesting and attractive to customers.  There isn’t any kind of differentiation in a typical 3-tier or N-tier[1] web application stack. This leads to needing secret sauce [...]

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Infrastructure as Code Presentations

June 26, 2009 – 11:09

If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ‘09.  I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only spent a day at Velocity, but suffice it to say that some very smart people [...]

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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 .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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Infrastructure in the Cloud Era

April 24, 2009 – 11:28

Great deck from Ezra Zygmuntowicz of EngineYard and Adam Jacob of OpsCode giving a high level overview of how to manage infrastructure for clouds.  The mantra of “program your infrastructure” continues to gain momentum.  There isn’t going to be a place for systems admins and operators who cannot write code in the future.  Unless you [...]

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