This from the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, 2013. A good introduction to OpenStack if you’re trying to wrap your head around what it is. http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/session-videos/presentation/getting-started-with-openstack
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.…
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…
A breakthrough in signal density through fiber optics.
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.
Unless you can find a manufacturer to model that can: Deliver a product to customers within minutes of the order being placed Modify the product for free during the manufacturing process no matter how large or small the change Agree to be paid only the cost of materials Provide the […]
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…
