March 2012
162 posts
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“It’s a great little add-on for making something quite hard to explain to...”
– Tracking the Trackers (my mods to the Collusion AddOn) - Dominic White
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Very cool.
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NetShare: Virtualizing Bandwidth within the Cloud... →
“NetShare extends fair queuing of links to fair sharing of networks.”
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SecondNet: A Data Center Network Virtualization... →
February 2012
77 posts
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“This draft describes STT (Stateless Transport Tunneling), a tunnel encapsulation...”
– http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-davie-stt-00.txt
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Another OTT overlay IETF draft, this time from Nicira.
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Watch(via Architectures for open and scalable clouds)
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“Systems sufficiently complex enough to require deep vertical technical...”
– Perspectives - Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems
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“Spring Hadoop provides support for writing Apache Hadoop applications that...”
– Spring Data - Hadoop | SpringSource.org
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Probabilistically Bounded Staleness - How eventual... →
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“The idea of using your own servers and then firing off cloud instances to handle...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Zen and the Art of Scaling - A Koan and Epigram Approach
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“Client side logic is your friend. There are many many client side CPU tricks....”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Zen and the Art of Scaling - A Koan and Epigram Approach
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“The art of scaling is getting done what needs to be gotten done, while staying...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Zen and the Art of Scaling - A Koan and Epigram Approach
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“The thing is, the key to the whole thing is that finest granularity of locking....”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Zen and the Art of Scaling - A Koan and Epigram Approach
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“For example: it makes no sense to terminate an instance that has been running...”
– High Scalability - High Scalability - Pixable Architecture - Crawling, Analyzing, and Ranking 20 Million Photos a Day
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Watch(via Virtual Network Architecture)
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“At the Strata Conference, the companies are unveiling two new areas of open...”
– News Post | Hortonworks
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cloud comparison tools
Cost
- compare the cloud
- Cloudorado
- CloudSizer
- Cloud Price Calculator
- solarwinds VM-to-Cloud Calculator
- ShopForCloud.com
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Performance
- CloudHarmony (not real time)
- CLOUDSLEUTH (current)
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“The internet is increasingly reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations...”
– The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams - Chris Dixon
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I’d call this the platform value proposition.
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“The cloud should be a monitoring dream: programmatic interfaces can...”
– Monitoring for the cloud is broken « Nodeable Blog
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IT pros rethink data center infrastructure to... →
Article is a series of highlights of use cases and approaches from: CareCore National [vBlock, Greenplum DCA, GemFire], eHarmony [seaMicro], ancestry.com [HP], Wikimedia [not stated].
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“However, I’m positive that the only way to build scalable virtual networks is...”
– Embrace the change … resistance is futile ;) « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
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Best Practices in Evaluating Elastic Load... →
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Dasein Cloud | Free software downloads at... →
“Write Java once, run against any cloud API. Clouds: Amazon, AT&T Synaptic Cloud (Storage), Azure (Storage), Bluelock, CloudSigma, GoGrid, Google (Storage), Joyent, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Tata, Terremark. Platforms: Atmos, Cloudstack, Eucalyptus, Joyent, Nimbula, Openstack, vCloud, vSphere.”
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Ingineering.IT: What CloudOps Tools Builders Can... →
ingineering:
I have done both software development and operations in my career. I’ve worked for large companies where dev and ops were run by different Vice Presidents, and startups where we all did everything. I’ve been working with cloud computing (or as we naively called it then, utility computing) and ops…
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Ingineering.IT: Amazon is Not in the PaaS Business →
ingineering:
Jeff Sussna, Ingineering.IT
Amazon recently announced two new AWS services: DynamoDB and Simple Workflow Services. These announcements have generated lots of discussion about whether Amazon is moving into the Platform-as-a-Service space. I believe Amazon is doing something altogether different…
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Characteristics of Machine Learning Models →
nosql:
Ricky Ho published yet another great article giving a high level summary of the algorithms used by different machine learning models:
decision trees
linear regression methods
neural networks
bayesian networks
support vector machines
nearest neighbor
For classification and regression problem, there are different choices of Machine Learning Models each of which can be viewed as a...
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Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison |... →
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“Customers’ purchase decisions don’t necessarily conform to those of the...”
– http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2007-spring/48301/finding-the-right-job-for-your-product/?non_mobile=1 (via cote)
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Light Reading - Optical Networking - FEC &... →
“To start to really achieve the above, we need smart agents and this is more than...”
– Bits or pieces?: Any given Tuesday
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Operational Checklists for AWS [pdf] →
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Examining File System Latency in Production -... →
“This paper introduces !le system latency as a metric for understanding application performance. With the increased functionality and caching of file systems, the traditional approach of studying disk-based metrics can be confusing and incomplete. The different reasons for this will be explained in detail, including new behavior that has been caused by I/O throttling in cloud computing...
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Futures and promises - Wikipedia, the free... →
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“Priam is a co-process that runs alongside Cassandra on every node to provide the...”
– The Netflix Tech Blog: Announcing Priam
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“Developers implement workers to perform tasks. They run their workers either on...”
– Expanding the Cloud – The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All Things Distributed
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“There were a few outliers (10-15 seconds), probably caused by lack of failure...”
– NEC IBM: Enterprise OpenFlow you can actually touch « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
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“For example the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second right? Absolutely....”
– Perspectives - Communicating Data Beyond the Speed of Light
“Rather than stick with traditional all-you-can-eat deals known as...”
– CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming | Reuters
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“Topology switching rejects the one-size-fits-all approach to path selection to...”
– Topology Switching for Data Center Networks
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“When we watch people try to complete tasks on websites we notice that often the...”
– Why are ugly websites so successful?
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“Hadoop, the leading open source big data analytics project, is a suite of...”
– Analyze This! Big Data | Apache Hadoop | Dell | Cloudera | Crowbar « Rob Hirschfeld’s Blog
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a... →
infoneer-pulse:
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and...
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“To answer this question, we came up with a new technique that allows us to...”
– Host server CPU utilization in Amazon EC2 cloud « Huan Liu’s Blog
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“Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving;...”
– RFC 968 by Vint Cerf (via entrepreneurdesigners)
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“Three days ago IBM launched Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V, its own...”
– IBM launched a Nexus 1000V competitor « ipSpace.net by @ioshints