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On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store
This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us for more insight. Resilient, adjective, /riˈzilyənt/ “Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”. In patients with a cough, you know what commonly causes…
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Facebook’s Open Compute: The Data Center is the New Server and the Rise of the Taiwanese Tigers
Today Facebook took the great step of openly talking about their server and datacenter designs at the level of detail where they can actually be replicated by others. Another reason why I call it “great?” Well, it’s interesting that the sourcing and design of these was done by Facebook and with Taiwanese component makers. Nothing…
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On Bruno’s Concern About the Current Coupling of node.js and V8
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (Yahoo! Fellow, VP and Platform Architect) wrote about his concerns around the current tight coupling between node.js and V8. Feel free to take a moment and read the original article: “NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8”. A reply doesn’t fit into a twitter response, and an update mentioning my reply would be…
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Comparing Virtual Machines is Like Comparing Cars: It Doesn’t Get to their Actual Utility or Value
A BMW and a Yugo are both cars. In a Yugo, “carpet” was listed as a feature. Enough said. McCrory recently blogged a Public Cloud hourly cost comparison comparing Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace and Joyent. I’m happy to see Joyent included in such great company but the comparisons are between “VMs.” As stated by Alistair Croll,…