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Rich Hintz

High Scalability - High Scalability - 7 Secrets to Successfully Scaling with ... - 5 views

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    RightScale
Stian Danenbarger

Marc Andreessen: "The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet" (2007, retriev... - 1 views

  • Ning within our platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easily building social networking applications; Salesforce within its platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easily building enterprise applications; Second Life within its platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easy building objects that live and interact within Second Life. EC2, at least for now, has no such ambitions, and is content to be more of a generic hosting environment.
  • Akamai, coming from a completely different angle, is tackling a lot of the technical requirements of a Level 3 Internet platform in their "EdgeComputing" service -- which lets their customers upload Java code into Akamai's systems.
  • Amazon's FPS -- Flexible Payments Service -- is itself a Level 3 Internet platform.
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  • I think that kids coming out of college over the next several years are going to wonder why anyone ever built apps for anything other than "the cloud" -- the Internet -- and, ultimately, why they did so with anything other than the kinds of Level 3 platforms that we as an industry are going to build over the next several years -- just like they already wonder why anyone runs any software that you can't get to through a browser.
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    "This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go. At best, I might be able to help make a new landscape clear. At worst, hopefully I can at least provide one framework for future discussion."
Alex MIkhalev

Enterprises and the Search Terms of SaaS - The Connected Web - 0 views

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    One of the barriers to enterprise adoption of SaaS and cloud services in general isn't security or unreliability; it's simply a cultural mismatch in the language that people use.
Alex MIkhalev

Pig Training Available Online (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) - 0 views

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    Yahoo! and Cloudera have worked together to produce a couple of training videos for Pig. There is Introduction to Pig, a 50 minute talk on Pig, including copious examples of writing Pig Latin scripts, an overview of how Pig works, and a discussion of the advantages of Pig versus other Hadoop interfaces
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    Pig Training Available Online Yahoo! and Cloudera have worked together to produce a couple of training videos for Pig. There is Introduction to Pig, a 50 minute talk on Pig, including copious examples of writing Pig Latin scripts, an overview of how Pig works, and a discussion of the advantages of Pig versus other Hadoop interfaces
Alex MIkhalev

Learned lessons from the largest player (Flickr, YouTube, Google, etc) | Haytham El-Fadeel - 0 views

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    Learned lessons from the largest player (Flickr, YouTube, Google, etc)
Alex MIkhalev

Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge? | Software as Services | ZDNet.com - 0 views

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    Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?
Rich Hintz

The Impact of Virtualization on Wide Area Networks-Part 1 - Data Center Networks - 0 views

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    Imagine that a Singapore-based sales manager is accessing a CRM application which was once local, but is now based in the Hong Kong data center. But it's end of quarter and the peak load on the Hong Kong CRM application is over the specified capacity limit, so the transaction (running on a virtual machine) is transferred via VMotion to the data center in San Francisco, completed and sent back to the Singapore sales office.
DJHell .

Labnotes » Confessions of a PackRat - 0 views

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    A presentation by Scott Raymond about PackRat, scaling with AWS and the big rewrite. 60 minutes of wisdom and experience.
anonymous

Microsoft Online Hosted Features in Comparison to On-Premise Solutions (Exchange, OCS, ... - 0 views

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    Microsoft Online Hosted Features in Comparison to On-Premise Solutions (Exchange, OCS, SharePoint)
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