http://masteringthecloud.com Tips, tools, and architecture to help you master cloud computing Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:55:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why Self Bootstrapping Deployments? Regardless of whether you are operating within a cloud environment or not (internal Eucalyptus or external AWS), I have always preached the need to architect software in a cloud friendly manner. Ensuring your deployment process is cloud friendly is one of the most important steps. Historically sysadmins and ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2010/02/self-bootstrapping-deployments/ After settling down from the holidays and getting into my new role at work, there were a few news items from January of the new 2010 year that stood out. Terrastore is a new distributed document store that grabs my interest due to my years working for Thomson Reuters and continually ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2010/01/january-2010-updates/ I've been quite busy lately with the Thanksgiving holiday and additionally I recently changed jobs. I now work for Global Crossing and am excited at the new challenges and opportunities in front of me. Recently I was able to get through my various industry articles and readings. I would like ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/12/recent-discussions-and-links/ Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook, recently gave a presentation entitled "High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook" to the University of California, San Diego. Jeff did a great job summarizing the challenges Facebook had to overcome. The following items I found of most ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/10/facebook-scaling-lessons/ At the end of last month, I gave a presentation at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to the Computer Science Community (CSC) on behalf Thomson Reuters. I decided to focus it on technologies and best practices that the students will most likely not experience until working full time in a ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/10/enterprise-development-presentation-at-rit/ I was lucky enough to catch a lecture by Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, yesterday at RIT. He was a very energetic speaker and I enjoyed his talk very much. Below are some of the highlights: "IP version 4 only has a 32 bit address space ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/04/vinton-cerf-speaks-at-rit/ The Cloud Computing Expo was quite the event and extremely tiring. Long days and lots of knowledge was shared. Below are some highlights from my notes and experiences. Werner Vogel (Amazon) Back in 2001 Amazon.com engineers joked that Amazon.com systems were built with WD40 and Duct Tape "We quickly learned databases don't scale" With ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/04/cloud-computing-expo-takeaways/ I sat down this evening and looked at the schedule of sessions at the Cloud Expo next week. I'm looking forward to it all as well as meeting up with some colleagues in Thomson Reuters at the Times Square office. 3/30 - Monday Ahead in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/03/cloud-expo-schedule-defined/ I'll be attending the Cloud Computing Expo in NYC at the end of the month. I'll be there all three days thanks to a complimentary VIP Gold Pass from ParaScale. I'm looking forward to hearing great presentations, meeting lots of people, and partaking in engaging discussions. If you are in NYC ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/03/cloud-computing-expo/ Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long been the forerunner of the cloud computing industry. The people who research, follow, and use AWS are usually an enthusiastic group and love to talk about it and how it can be applied to applications and architectures. There are various AWS User Groups out ... http://masteringthecloud.com/2009/03/aws-user-groups/