Tag Archives: centralization

Debunking the “No Such Thing as A Private Cloud” Myth

Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon.  The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing.  Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model.  Only large scale [...]

Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized.  In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]

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