Tag Archives: scaling

Bifurcating Clouds

August 6, 2009 – 08:30

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], and focused clouds. In retrospect I realize now that there are possibly four, not [...]

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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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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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