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At CMG’09 today
On paper it looked like a scientific approach to performance management, born in the mainframe days when computers were expensive. Now it’s cloud-scale that matters (and an ailing world economy if you’re not a bank) so managing capacity rigorously (and … Continue reading
I love Amazon Web Services open pricing
I’ve just spent 2 hours crafting a spreadsheet to compare how much it would cost to set up a decent platform to deliver the kind of data services I manage, vs. the same on EC2. Easy access to pricing is … Continue reading
Tokyo train map meets Internet powerhouses
Web Trend Map 4 Final Beta Originally uploaded by formforce Cute.
Robots
Somewhat unrelated to the topic of data crunching and computing I wanted to mention an eye-opening book about robots: Wired for War by P.W. Singer.
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
Velocity: Panel, a survival guide
Panelists: presented by Adam Jacob (HJK Solutions), Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ), Brian Moon (dealnews.com), Don MacAskill (SmugMug), John Allspaw (Flickr (Yahoo!)), Michael Halligan (BitPusher, LLC) and a gentleman (Fotolog) Don McAskill: Rafael Nadal started to win Roland-Garros and his … Continue reading
Velocity: Sean Quilan @google, Storage at scale
Strategy: buy lots of commodity hardware, because problems tend to be too big for their problem space. Hardware reliability is not that useful as well because it’s expensive. [Showing the same pictures over and over again, someone from Google PR, … Continue reading
