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Cloud Computing – Why is it so good for business?

December 28, 2008

From a financial perspective, Cloud Computing pushes risks onto the people that own the assets.  The business in effect rent a particular set of assets, based on their usage. For the business this  transforms IT capex into opex. From a development perspective, Cloud Computing  enables you to potentially roll out your solution in minutes or [...]

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Webfaction Review

December 20, 2008

Having been with Webfaction for over a year i think it’s about time i said how good they are.  The plans are all very reasonable and have a very rich feature from static HTML, PHP and CGI to Rails, Django, Turbogears and Plone, these plans let you run any software you want. You can even [...]

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QCon day 5 – how is ebay architected

March 14, 2008

Its been interesting to listen to speakers, each of which portraits the strategies and principles and this time was the turn of Randy Shoup. His four strategies for architectures for scale. Partition everything ASync everywhere Automate everything Remember everything fails Around these points he very clearly showed pattens ebay have implemented and how these directly [...]

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QCon day 4 – Clustered architecture patterns

March 13, 2008

Ari Zilka CTO of Terracota gave an excellent presentation on how the product works and how it can be used. I was not going to attend this session, but he was excellent on the previous sessions panel, so i was drawn to it. His view on the world of using stateful in memory data and [...]

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QCon day 4 – Performance and Scaleability panel

March 13, 2008

Scale up, Scale out, Split the problem space, tune or re-architect. You may want to build with a vendor in mind.

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QCon day 3 – keeping 99.95% uptime

March 12, 2008

I found the speaker a little monotone, but the content of the talk was very interesting. It provided a very clear view of how Merrel Lynch deals with the billions of daily messages, produced by there systems globally. The break down of message precedence and the aim of automated fixing of an issue within an [...]

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