Videos from re:Invent 2013
Videos from re:Invent 2013 Link to all the AWS re:Invent videos. Lots of interesting talks and conversations around public cloud architectures. Useful for folks in the business of private clouds too in the abstract.
Facebook hints at ARM server deployment too
Originally posted on Gigaom:
First it was rumors of Google building ARM-based servers, and now a post on the blog dedicated to Facebook’s HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP code notes how its translation engine plays a “crucial in our efforts to get hhvm running on ARM processors.” Indeed if Facebook…
Nimble Storage IPO goes swimmingly
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Nimble Storage’s opening day wasn’t too shabby. The storage vendor started the morning at $31.10 per share, up nearly 50 percent from the $21 opening day share price set Thursday for a total expected take of $168 million for 8 million shares and a valuation of…
Oculus gets 75MM to get VR done!
Oculus gets 75MM to get VR done! I can’t wait to play Dactyl Nightmare at home.
Workout App Fitstar Gets An Overhaul As It Shows Promising Paid Sign-Up Metrics
I just installed this app on my iPad. On paper this makes total sense to me – make my tablet my fitness coach
DevOps and the “Product-centric” approach
Originally posted on DevOpsGroup:
When doing the research for our BrightTalk Webinar on DevOps I came across this quote from Jez Humble on “products not projects”, which really struck a chord with our thinking about what we call the “product-centric” approach to DevOps. Figure 1 – DevOpsGuys BrightTalk Webinar One…
Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield
Originally posted on Gigaom:
The Semantic Web may have failed, but higher intelligence is coming to applications anyway, in another form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evolution of the operating system. CaaS will enable every app to become as smart as Siri in its own niche.…
SaltStack signs on for Google Cloud
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Google(s goog) wants to attract more developers to its now-generally-available Google Cloud Platform so it can make headway, vis-a-vis Amazon Web Services(s amzn). SaltStack wants to make headway against configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet. So, it makes sense that the two companies would parlay this into a…
Squeezing more light in could lead to fiber optic cables that carry 10 times more data
A breakthrough in signal density through fiber optics.