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Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed?

Matthew D. — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:43:22 +0000

Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.

Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?

I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.

There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]

Google App Engine – now supporting Java

Chi-Ming — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:23:20 +0000

http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10214663-2.html

Prior to this they have only supported Python, a language with a far more limited following. Here’s the rundown:

Supports JDK 1.6. Free for limited use, no ability to pay for heavier use yet Can access data behind the firewall through Secure Data Connect Supports cron and data import ability Uses BigTable (key/value pairs) for storage, so can’t use JDBC. [...]

Behind the Firewall vs. Cloud

Chi-Ming — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:09:51 +0000

Cloud computing is hot. But here’s an interesting article about the cloud model versus the downloadable / behind-the-firewall model that concludes that there are still arguments for downloadable and self-hosted software, chief being control.

Firewall vs. Cloud

And this one is about a cloud-based web app development platform which went under:

Coghead

In my opinion that’s one of the [...]

Rackspace Roadshow

Shane C. — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:03:28 +0000

Chi-Ming & I attended the Rackspace Roadshow on Thursday, April 17th. This was chance for Rackspace to present their technology roadmap for the next year or so. Rackspace’s main business is providing managed hosting. A client would specify a build of a server which they would build or purchase, configure and install [...]