Well This is Interesting
I heard it from a little birdie that Microsoft is going to make inbound data transfers free on Azure starting on July 1st. The post Well This is Interesting appeared first on Ian Mariano.
View Article@ Scale
Most people don’t have to deal with scale on the size of Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al. Scale for the traditional website, neonate cloud-based site, or small to medium enterprise is usually limited...
View ArticleJava on Azure!
Check this out — Building Java applications on Windows Azure gets easier with the new version of the Eclipse plugin — from the Microsoft Interoperability blog. A Windows Azure Eclipse Plugin for Java....
View ArticleMore Scale
CERN ATLAS produces up to 320M bytes per second, followed by CMS with 220M Bps and has an open source hardware effort. Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects. That’s a big meatball. The post More...
View ArticleArmy of the 12 Monkeys?
Netflix is a pretty big operation and they do some serious up-front testing and hardening of their systems which you can read about here: The Netflix Simian Army. The post Army of the 12 Monkeys?...
View ArticleSpastic Elastic
This is an interesting read: Amazon’s Post-Mortem on the 7/8 August 2011 EU West “Service Event”. There also is an interesting sidebar about it on High Scalability. The post Spastic Elastic appeared...
View ArticleAWS vs. Azure
Gigaom has posted an interesting article where two startup tech guys — Craig Knighton of LiquidSpace and Zach Richardson of Ravel Data — lay out the cases for their clouds of choice to see how the...
View ArticleCould the Bird be the Word?
It’s been quite a year for pundits on all sides of the SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL and now MoreSQL camps. I’m very much a fan of the right tool for the right job approach, and I’ve been beta testing a very...
View ArticleClick – Scale
Instagram. My wife and I just started using it even though my brother in law has been an ardent fan since pretty much their launch. High Scalability has a really good write up on how they’ve approached...
View ArticleBird in Flight
The folks over at NuoDB have launched Beta 5 (http://nuodb.com/blog/2011/12/news/beta-5-preview/) with 100+ improvements including performance upgrades, cloud-friendliness, language driver support,...
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