Getting Velocity – Economy of Motion

Posted on June 8, 2010 by andrew

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged devops, DevOpsDays, Internet Operations, Just Plain Cool, Structure, VelocityConf | 1 Comment

More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO

Posted on May 19, 2010 by andrew

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloudscaling, devops, Internet Operations, Total Cost of Ownership | 2 Comments

Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged centralization, cloud, commoditization, databases, decentralization, enterprise, hadoop, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, scaling, sharding | 5 Comments

Infrastructure as Code Presentations

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Automation, cloud, conferences, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, presentations | 1 Comment