I was recently at the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing meetup hosted by Facebook where Netflix was talking about their hosting nearly their entire cluster on Amazon Web Services. Specifically – SimpleDB. Here’s what really would bother me if I was at Netflix… Amazon decides to compete with you heads on in my primary market. Well [...]
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This was a colossal fail on the part of Twitter. Even if you don’t think they did this on purpose, it was a huge PR error on their part. Or a PR win on the part of Uber. Either way Twitter lost and appears to come across as a bully. The world doesn’t like bullies. [...]
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Hadoop has hit a 4000 node scalability wall. Most of us aren’t running into this wall but it’s interesting to see what it’s happening. The elasticity of clouds make this more of a challenge. Most people don’t normally need 4000 noes but say you want to do something REALLY fast. I could see wanting to [...]
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There’s a middle path here. You can go with someone like Softlayer or Rackspace and have your cake and eat it too. Softlayer is a bit closer to being the cloud. We love them. Great company. Major partner for us… we’re going to be doubling down on servers this year and they’re going to get [...]
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