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West Coast Grid: Of Course Scaling Matters!
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Thursday, December 08, 2005. Of Course Scaling Matters! The controversy over at Jeremy Wright’s Blog. Which started with this post. Hasn't slowed down much. He's gotten a ton of comments, flames, and posts. He defends himself here. Small things like managing how transactions occur, having separate database connections for reading and writing, making your app able to handle variable state sessions, etc are key.
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West Coast Grid: November 2007
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Monday, November 12, 2007. See you at SuperComputing! One more time: see you in Reno at SuperComputing. I've got a bunch of meetings, but when I'm not in a meeting I'll be standing in the AMD booth showing off a .NET deskside "supercomputer." (I have to put that in quotes because there will be real. Super computers there.). So watch this space, but watch that space, too. Posted by Dan Ciruli. Posted by Dan Ciruli.
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West Coast Grid: I'm all for scalability
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Friday, August 01, 2008. I'm all for scalability. I love being quoted by that coffee-roasting, free-diving, Hawai'i living, .NET expert Larry O'Brien. So I was quite please to read my name in his latest SD Times column. He quoted a tweet (yes, I love Twitter. Where I quoted a fellow CloudCamp attendee saying "Designing your app to scale is guaranteed failure—it will take too long to write.". Coincided with my own.
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West Coast Grid: Sarah Perez Looks at Microsoft's Cloud
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Sarah Perez Looks at Microsoft's Cloud. Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb. Has a pretty darn good post. Up about Microsoft's cloud efforts (at least the publicly announced cloud efforts). Their vision of a "connected OS" is deeper than anything I see from any vendor. Their software stack spans consumer apps and enterprise apps. But as Sarah points out, Ray Ozzie's Microsoft 2.0 is focused on t...
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West Coast Grid: Vogels on Scalability
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Monday, April 03, 2006. Last December I participated in a bit of a debate. About scalability. My main point (I was agreeing with Jeremy Wright. At the time) was that good software has scalability designed in from the beginning. To quote myself:. Well, on Thursday my sentiment was echoed by a pretty powerful voice: Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. In his post A Word on Scalability. Vogels sums it perfectly:. Hetero...
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West Coast Grid: Web 2.0 Companies NEED To Scale
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Tuesday, December 06, 2005. Web 20 Companies NEED To Scale. Sometimes I read a blog post and it just makes me smile. Talks about the need for scaleability for Web 2.0 companies (he's specifically talking about an announcement. Listen up. If your company relies on the web to stay alive, you’d damn well better be using at least some of the following “ladder to high availability”:. To plan for success. They have.
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West Coast Grid: March 2008
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Friday, March 07, 2008. Desktop software is hard, eh Google? I was excited to hear about Google Calendar Sync. I got a Blackberry Curve last week, and I've been playing around with the best way to get both my personal (Google) and business (Outlook) calendars sync'd with it. But with the Google Sync download for my phone, it started grabbing my Google Calendar items with no problem. Has anyone else seen this? And m...
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West Coast Grid: Is Online Gaming Cloud Computing's Killer App?
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Is Online Gaming Cloud Computing's Killer App? If you haven't seen the video showcasing OnLive's. Online gaming platform from this year's Game Developers Conference. You should check it out here. It seems that latency would be a huge issue, even on those high bandwidth connections - they claim that it's imperceptible, but only real game play will tell. If their product does everything that...
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A Day in the Life: June 2006
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A Day in the Life. A day in my life. Thoughts on leadership, management, startups, technology, software, concurrent development, etc. Basically the stuff I think about from 10am to 6pm. Software: MSDN search tip. I wanted to find out what [Serializable] is in its relationship to a class. My original search was:. Which didn’t get me what I needed, I then tried:. Again this failed to produce the results I wanted. So then I remembered something I read yesterday and I tried this:. Links to this post. 2 You a...
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A Day in the Life: November 2006
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A Day in the Life. A day in my life. Thoughts on leadership, management, startups, technology, software, concurrent development, etc. Basically the stuff I think about from 10am to 6pm. Follow up: Inland Empire. There were things that we talked about during the presentation that I told the group I would put up a blog post about. Here is a link to the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis. MOCA) project that we talked about. Wrote an article for Dr. Dobb's you can find here. Links to this post. Active in the so...
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