Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon. The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing. Hence, the “cloud” … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, aws, centralization, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, private cloud | 20 CommentsIt can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged centralization, cloud, commoditization, databases, decentralization, enterprise, hadoop, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, scaling, sharding | 5 Comments