Monthly Archives: March 2009
Open cloud manifesto, not much radicalism here
The manifesto triggered copious traffic thanks to the backroom-smoke-filled air of its inception. I wish the same could be said about its less-than-radical contents. If you were expecting a stated vision about the cloud as the substrate of all future … Continue reading
Posting from emacs
Tiny post about using weblogger.el, I already feel so l33t.
Interesting data growth factoid
From http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ “United States demographic data from the 1980 (approximately 2 GB), 1990 (approximately 50 GB), and 2000 US Censuses (approximately 200GB)” Should we expect a 400GB volume for the 2010 census, or 2TB in 2020 and 200TB in 2040? … Continue reading
Thinking about IT Operations and Kanban
As our developers are transitioning to an agile methodology, we have been figuring out how to adapt our operational processes to a more regular schedule that fixed-length, 1-month-long sprints are going to entail. So far we have worked in a … Continue reading
“The illusion of unlimited supply…”
Berkeley’s Reliable, Adaptable, Distributed Systems Lab has produced a nice synthesis of the current technological underpinning of cloud computing, in a paper called “Above the clouds“. StorageMojo and Perspectives have done a fine exegesis of the paper so I thought I’d focus on … Continue reading
Why is eucalyptus written in C?
Today I perused the source code of eucalyptus 1.4 and I was a bit surprised to find out that it’s written in C, even when most of the system interaction is done through libvirt. I have to say this makes … Continue reading
