Originally posted on Gigaom:
Joyent, the company that helped develop and nurture Node.js, will now offer commercial support for the popular server-side JavaScript language. If you’re a cynic you might wonder if this is one reason a spat erupted last week between Joyent and Strongloop, a company founded specifically to…
Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google Compute Engine is now Generally Available with expanded OS support, transparent maintenance, and lower prices This is a pretty big deal. Google Compute Engine is now GA.
The Netflix Tech Blog: Active-Active for Multi-Regional Resiliency The Netflix team describes how they’ve built an active-active based approach to resiliency on top of Amazon web services. This is a fantastic read if you’re into enterprise architecture. And who isn’t, really?! The one really interesting element here I think – […]
Go 1.2 is released – The Go Blog Go 1.2 released! Pre-emptive scheduling for goroutines, increase to goroutine stack size, test coverage features and a new index slice syntax.
Originally posted on Cloud Architect Musings:
[UPDATE] My Rackspace colleague, James Thorne, has a post on his extremely useful blog that uses the 4.2.1 release of the Rackspace Private Cloud (RPC) to install the Havana release of OpenStack on a laptop using Vagrant and Chef. Since James’ post actually uses…
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Most of the Twitter response to Amazon(s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos’ star turn on 60 Minutes focused on Amazon’s plans to offer drone delivery of small packages in the not-too-far-off-but-unspecified future. Bezos showed off the small helicopter like devices, actually octocopters, to the always credulous Charlie…
