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Amazon’s recent S3 problems
A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3’s recent 9-hour downtime from the people at the center of it. (via Werner Vogel’s blog)
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“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s
Werner Vogel just finished his “Ahead in the Cloud” talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining. Amazon is light years ahead of the rest of the industry in thinking about and delivering utility computing to the world. The talk was not technical given the audience here but here are some highlights/notes…
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The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop
My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop. This meeting has been getting better and better with each year. The community amazes me every time with the wonderful things that they have to show. This year the workshop is co-located with the 4th…
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Three day of Mapping and Reducing…
I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use Hadoop to write map-reduce computations. I already know map-reduce of course but it’s interesting to get some hands-on experience on Hadoop. Fun!
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Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power
20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)… “I never knew Google was THIS massive!“
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Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again
I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)… – (My manager at the time:) Savas, we’d like to ask you to drive the latest technical efforts on WS-Transfer. – Eh? You do know that from all the specifications in the WS-* ecosystem WS-Transfer is perhaps the…
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“So You Say You Want to Kill XML…”
Great post by Ted Neward on Google‘s Protocol Buffers (see also my previous short comment). (via Stefan’s post)
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“Cloud Services Continuum” – Great post by Robert
As I catch up with my blog feeds after having wrongly configured Outlook, which left me without updates for more than two weeks, I came across this great post by Robert of Digipede fame. Great little summary! “The diagram to the right shows this continuum from infrastructure to platform to software. Brief definitions of these…
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New toy on order
As those close to me know, I love photography. Unfortunately, my Canon EOS 300D Digital SLR got so wet while I was queuing at Glastonbury that it stopped working. So, I had to buy a new camera. After doing some research I got a really good deal online on a Canon EOS 40D with an…
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REST anti-patterns
Jim pointed me to Stefan’s article on “REST anti-patterns“, which I somehow missed*. Very very nice indeed! I particularly liked the following note: The usual standard disclaimer applies: REST, the Web, and HTTP are not the same thing; REST could be implemented with many different technologies, and HTTP is just one concrete architecture that happens…