Tag Archives: infrastructure

Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

July 28, 2009 – 08:30

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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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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Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

June 15, 2009 – 09:15

If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds).  Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is to pick a subset of the market to focus on.  Focused clouds find a sweet [...]

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Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

June 5, 2009 – 09:30

Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space?  If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, but have the size to play ball?  (See Pt. 1: Service Clouds).  The answer is [...]

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Private Clouds Matter

June 4, 2009 – 09:00

Some folks think that there is no such thing as a ‘private’ cloud.  By definition all clouds are public.  Unfortunately, some times the confusion is around whether a cloud exists internally or externally rather than if it’s public or private.  Yet, even in the case where this confusion doesn’t exist, the notion of a private [...]

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