Tag Archives: scaling

Cloud-Based Scalability Testing

July 21, 2009 – 08:30

Today SOASTA announced their performance certification program for websites.  This is a pretty interesting development as far as I am concerned.  I’ve watched SOASTA from afar since their inception and I have always though it was a particularly clever use of cloud computing.  Their approach is essentially to use someone else’s resources, Amazon in this [...]

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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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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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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
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