On Clouds and SPOF’s (or the Great AWS Outage of April 2011)
Just a couple of days after posting about cloud native applications Amazon raised the bar by having some issues in one of their data center regions. These issues primarily affected EBS and RDS from...
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Scale Planning and the AKF Scale Cube
There are a lot of ways to draw diagrams for availability and scalability. I use different ones for different purposes all the time. However, when I was reading the Art of Scalability by AKF partners...
View ArticleProductionScale Communication Problem Discovery
I discovered today a distressing thing about my blog. For the last few months two things have been misconfigured. One, my phone number was an old number that is out of service. So, if you tried to...
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Welcome VGBuilder to the world!
Build custom apps + deploy them to your cloud host of choice -- straight from the command line. The first applications using VGBuilder are live already and there are more in works.This Cloud Native...
View ArticleCloud Operating Systems: Do They Exist Yet?
I was asked an interesting question by friend of mine a few days ago. He says simply, “Are there any Cloud Operating Systems?”I then proceeded to argue that no, there really were not any because all...
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The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing(Draft)
click for original doc I thought I'd start the week with a reminder of an oldie but goodie. This document came out after the intial barrage of "what is cloud computing" and "cloud computing defined"...
View ArticleCan New Clouds Teach Old Apps New Tricks?
Cramming the same old code, CMS, application, etc into the cloud (any cloud) doesn't make the most of the capabilities of cloud computing in all it's various forms. I expect to be discussion this...
View ArticleStop Staring at my Polyglot!
I received an interesting comment/question via my blog recently. It went a bit like this... I’m developing a distributed cloud application but my developers are pushing back on me for having a...
View ArticleBrick and Mortal Retail Doomed, Doomed I Say
Not my usual blog topic, but hey, it’s Friday and I had a brutal week. But, I just had to relay a retail experience I had a week or so ago. I went into a local hardware store. It’s a pretty good one...
View ArticleThe SaaS Aggregation Benefit Mirage
In this service oriented on-demand world I’ve been running into something again and again lately that I’ve found interesting and a bit annoying.To start, imagine I’m going to build an application that...
View ArticleBuilding an Application upon Riak - Part 1
For the past few months some of my colleagues and I have been developing an application with Riak as the primary persistent data store. This has been a very interesting journey from beginning to now....
View ArticleHow NOT to Sell NoSQL Database
This is the description of my first experience with a newer NoSQL database that we'll just call NoSQL Database #9999 I was told about and asked what I thought about it overall. I hadn't heard of it...
View ArticlePeople, Process & Technology
I am often asked how I do things and why. In most cases it really does come down to thinking about three things and making sure they are properly tended to at all times. Those three things are...
View ArticleWhen is Big Data Actually Big?
There is a quandary for anyone trying to wrap their head around what “BigData” means. When is big data really big? I had a good conversation with a friend of mine @ckenton today and as we were...
View ArticleData Goes Through Phases on the Way to Insights
Over the last few years I've been primarily building medium to large scale custom real time analytics platforms for clients. It's kept me pretty busy. I've done some for startups and even one for a big...
View ArticleMoving at the Speed of Cloud
The majority of my work in the last three years or so has been all about receiving, getting, pushing, pulling, and generally wrangling streams of data (mostly social data) for the purposes of...
View ArticleIt's 2013! Things Break, Services Falter. Move Forward.
It's a New Year, I have the cloud, but I still have many of the same old Single Points of Failure. It's known that a single point of failure (SPOF) is a risk. It's an Achilees heel so to speak. That...
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QSNB Meetup v1.3 - Feb 26!
The Quantified Self North Bay Meetup Group http://bit.ly/11fe6vb will be meeting on Februay 26th, 2013 for it's 3rd scheduled meetup. If you are interested in what Quantified Self is up to this could...
View ArticleWhat is to Show for Five Years of Cloud Computing?
Just a few short years ago launching a virtual machine in the cloud was a simple and basic. With a couple of API calls and maybe a button click or two you were up and running in a just a few minutes....
View Article140+ v2013.05.15
The field of Deep Learning has something that just rings true. http://bit.ly/139i756 very exciting field.Deep Learning is a truly exciting area in the field of computer science and mathematics. I was...
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