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(via 2013 05 BEA - ’Mobile is eating the World’)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:13:07 -0400

(via 2013 05 BEA - ’Mobile is eating the World’)

(via The Number of Active and Hyperactive Venture Capital Firms...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:49:50 -0400

(via The Number of Active and Hyperactive Venture Capital Firms is Increasing (Not Decreasing))

Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup | Holovaty.com

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:10:30 -0400

Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup | Holovaty.com

(via Scalable networking in Apache CloudStack)

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:18:30 -0400

(via Scalable networking in Apache CloudStack)

"If, however, someone tries to sell you software that’s supposed to control your physical switches,..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:48 -0400

“If, however, someone tries to sell you software that’s supposed to control your physical switches, and does not support the usual set of protocols you need to integrate the OpenFlow-controlled switches with the rest of your network (example: STP, LACP, LLDP on L2 and some routing protocol on L3), think twice. If you use the OpenFlow-controlled part of the network in an isolated fabric or small-scale environment, you probably don’t care whether the new toy supports STP or OSPF; if you want to integrate it with the rest of your existing data center network, be very careful.”

- Implementing Control-Plane Protocols with OpenFlow « ipSpace.net by @ioshints

“This session explains how an internal private cloud can...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:40:14 -0400

“This session explains how an internal private cloud can complement existing IT platform solutions, rather than attempt to replace them. The Walt Disney Company will describe how we developed our plan for a parallel private cloud implementation that aligned with key business factors – accessibility, security, stability and globalization – based on existing investments in a private business. Learn how a private cloud benefits an enterprise and best practices for an integrated model.” (via Citrix TV)

"There is a reason why we probably tend towards this belief of one size fits all, it’s our desire for..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:41:43 -0400

“There is a reason why we probably tend towards this belief of one size fits all, it’s our desire for simplicity. Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety (a staple diet of those interested in cybernetics) describes how a management system needs to have as much variability as the system being controlled in order to be effective. There are two solutions to this problem, either you enable management to be complex (using multiple techniques depending upon what you’re dealing with) or you pretend that what is being managed is simple (i.e. one size does fit all). Our desire for uniformity points to our tendency to do the latter.”

- Bits or pieces?: Why one size never fits all

(via Bits or pieces?: Why one size never fits all)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:36:27 -0400

(via Bits or pieces?: Why one size never fits all)

"But is that the way we’ll want to live in the future — susceptible to suspicion because of..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:23:12 -0400

“But is that the way we’ll want to live in the future — susceptible to suspicion because of what we read or who we know? As a noted expert on privacy, Greta Garbo once wrote, “I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.””

- Did ATMs Represent The Dawn Of The Digital Era? : NPR

slavin: “I’ve also thought a lot about the reproduction of...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:53:36 -0400

slavin:

“I’ve also thought a lot about the reproduction of these animals. Imagine these Strandbeests making copies of themselves simply by feeding them plastic tubes. I’m sure this is possible, but I need a few more million years to make that a reality.

Today, Strandbeests have an ability to multiply that I wasn’t aware of in 2007. Let me explain. The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code. I published this genetic code on my website and since then, hundreds of students, especially in the United States, have been able to produce their own Strandbeests. (Search YouTube for “theo jansen mechanism” and you will find them.)

You may argue that humans do this replication, but I see it differently. The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student’s brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests. They are born, not assembled, and walk on the table, which you can see here.”

Nice Theo Jansen piece in HuffPo.

"Anything that does not require judgement or creativity is suitable for automation."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:40:51 -0400

“Anything that does not require judgement or creativity is suitable for automation.”

- Put Your Robots to Work: Security Automation at Twitter - Justin Collins, Neil Matatall, Alex Smolen (via abnerg)

"The Linux Containers deployed with Docker have multiple advantages over the “normal” virtual..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:56:53 -0400

“

The Linux Containers deployed with Docker have multiple advantages over the “normal” virtual machines usually deployed by Nova. Those advantages are speed, efficiency, and portability. A Linux Container is a group of processes isolated from the rest of the system. From the inside, a Linux Container “looks like” a virtual machine, with its own resources (network interface, routing tables…), except that it doesn’t need the heavy machinery required by virtual machines to expose or emulate I/O devices or hardware components. This means that containers are much faster to boot, have less memory and CPU overhead, while retaining the ability to “run anywhere” like a virtual machine. The only requirement is to run Linux, since containers share the kernel of their host.

This better efficiency means that instead of booting a VM in a few seconds, in can spawn multiple containers in milliseconds. Instead of worrying about the storage used by your VMs, you can store hundreds or thousands of containers on a typical host. Last but not least, you don’t have to worry anymore about compatibility between KVM, Xen, VMWare, VirtualBox, or installing “guest additions”: Docker containers work exactly the same way on (and are portable across) any x64 machine (virtualized or not). The only requirement is a fairly modern Linux Kernel (like 3.8).

”

- OpenStack-Docker: How to manage your Linux Containers with Nova | Docker Blog

"the arc of my diminishing earnings: 2009, national magazine writer/editor, $110k with benefits, got..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:30:32 -0400

“the arc of my diminishing earnings: 2009, national magazine writer/editor, $110k with benefits, got laid off. 2010, went freelance, still writer/editor, $105k thanks partly to severance payments from old job unemployment comp. 2011, $105k, worked my ass off, 6d/wk, 52wks. 2012, $90k, clients started disappearing, getting worried. 2013, income crashing bc of falling journalism rats, on track to hit $70k? considering change to new career. but what: consulting? PR? sell a kidney? hate being mid 40s and feeling like my chosen career is disintegrating ahead of me, like a crumbling bridge in a lord of the rings movie scene.”

- NYC residents: what do you do and what is your salary? : nyc

abnerg: (via Exclusive: Hewlett-Packard has slashed R&D...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:41:53 -0400

abnerg:

(via Exclusive: Hewlett-Packard has slashed R&D spending to fraction of valley norms - San Jose Mercury News)

"The world outside is not known here a lot. I bet you’re reading what sort of latest technologies and..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:23:17 -0400

“The world outside is not known here a lot. I bet you’re reading what sort of latest technologies and tools are out on blogs, Reddit or Hacker News every day. It’s not common here. I am surprised that no one I met in Windows Azure team heard about Heroku or Rackspace, which are direct competitors. That’s acceptable, not everybody has to know these.”

- 8 months in Microsoft, I learned these | /home/alp

nickgrossman: The week after the NSA scandal breaks, traffic at...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:22:24 -0400

nickgrossman:

The week after the NSA scandal breaks, traffic at DuckDuckGo reaches an all time high.

(via https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html, via @aweissman)

"Project bark dog monitors the performance of different APIs and notifies you via email or Twitter..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:12:48 -0400

“Project bark dog monitors the performance of different APIs and notifies you via email or Twitter once a certain Web API is running slow. We bark when your app might be slow and tell you why.”

- Project Barkdog

"Windows Azure Pack delivers Windows Azure technologies for you to run inside your datacenter"

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:21:36 -0400

“Windows Azure Pack delivers Windows Azure technologies for you to run inside your datacenter”

- Microsoft | Windows Azure Pack| Windows Small Business Server Next Version

"I’m going to buck conventional “promotional item” wisdom here and posit that a legendary promotional..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:29:17 -0400

“I’m going to buck conventional “promotional item” wisdom here and posit that a legendary promotional t-shirt should be 90% awesome, and only 10% promotional. More than 10% promotional, and you’re going to start losing wearers. People are people, not billboards. Don’t just slap your logo on the front and call it a day.”

- How to create a legendary promotional t-shirt | Piston Cloud Computing

"The detail about the network that is unspoken when the idea of building cheaper network switches is..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:37:59 -0400

“The detail about the network that is unspoken when the idea of building cheaper network switches is discussed, is the ability to dynamically control and redistribute capacity. Capacity in the network is and has been constrained from the beginning. Capacity is constrained by the physical wires and the protocols that we run over the wires to allow for interoperability, fault detection and restoration. The idea of building overlay networks for virtualized machines is an attempt to solve the challenge of static capacity with programming. If all the compute resources are virtualized, it is possible to build an overlay network that can then move VMs around to pools of capacity in the network.”

- Fluidity of Network Capacity, Commoditization, DIY Openness and the Demise of the Network Engineer | SIWDT