Tag Archives: Internet Operations
Getting Velocity – Economy of Motion
Last time, I implied that scale alone doesn’t always lead to the operational efficiency in the datacenter There is no class someone can take that will teach them everything they need to know to run a datacenter, and the applications … Continue reading
More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO
James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it … Continue reading
Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized
It 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
Infrastructure as Code Presentations
If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ’09. I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only … Continue reading
