Amazon’s recent S3 problems

17 years ago

A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3's recent 9-hour downtime…

“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s

17 years ago

Werner Vogel just finished his "Ahead in the Cloud" talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining.…

The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop

17 years ago

My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop.…

Three day of Mapping and Reducing…

17 years ago

I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use…

Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power

17 years ago

20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)... "I never knew Google was THIS massive!"

Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again

17 years ago

I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)... - (My manager…

“So You Say You Want to Kill XML…”

17 years ago

Great post by Ted Neward on Google's Protocol Buffers (see also my previous short comment). (via Stefan's post)

“Cloud Services Continuum” – Great post by Robert

17 years ago

As I catch up with my blog feeds after having wrongly configured Outlook, which left me without updates for more…

New toy on order

17 years ago

As those close to me know, I love photography. Unfortunately, my Canon EOS 300D Digital SLR got so wet while…

REST anti-patterns

17 years ago

Jim pointed me to Stefan's article on "REST anti-patterns", which I somehow missed*. Very very nice indeed! I particularly liked…