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Category: cloud-computing (51)

27 Apr 2014 » How Enterprise IT Gave Rise to Cloud
04 Aug 2013 » Response To Simon Wardley: Innovation in Interface Implementations
10 Jan 2013 » What "Software Defined" Actually Means
05 Jul 2012 » Applying 5 Whys to Amazon EC2 Outage
09 Apr 2012 » How AWS Could Improve Spot Market
27 Feb 2012 » Amazon Web Services and Innovator's Dilemma
10 Jan 2012 » On Amazon EC2 Spot Price Spikes
11 Oct 2011 » VXLAN and NVGRE - Not a Long Term Answer
03 Aug 2011 » Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - A Flop?
13 Jul 2011 » Network: From Hardware Past To Software Future
25 May 2011 » IaaS vs PaaS
08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
20 Mar 2011 » Netflix The Rising Star of Cloud
15 Feb 2011 » On Nuances of Jevons Paradox in Cloud Computing
02 Feb 2011 » Cloud As Application Data Exchange Point
19 Jan 2011 » My Doubts About Idea Behind SpotCloud.com
14 Dec 2010 » Basics of IaaS Spot Pricing
02 Dec 2010 » Unexpected Similarities in EC2 Spot Price History Between Regions
16 Nov 2010 » Connecting to Eucalyptus Walrus (S3) with Boto and socket.gaierror
09 Nov 2010 » Run on the Cloud
28 Sep 2010 » Dealing with Noisy Neighbors in the Cloud
13 Sep 2010 » Pricing in the Cloud
01 Sep 2010 » Extending EC2 API - ec2-describe-ipaddress-ranges
03 Aug 2010 » Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading
20 Jul 2010 » Russell's Paradox and Cloud Computing
23 Jun 2010 » CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed as Networking Fabric of the Intercloud
30 Mar 2010 » Probing Ports in Remote Security Groups in EC2
23 Mar 2010 » IaaS, Hype and Marginal Cost
16 Feb 2010 » Workloads in Cloud Computing
26 Jan 2010 » Digging into EC2 Spot Price History
18 Dec 2009 » Cloud Overlay Networks Demystified - Holiday Edition
13 Dec 2009 » My Thoughts After CloudCamp Boston 2009
17 Nov 2009 » Costs vs Agility as Drivers for Cloud Computing
02 Nov 2009 » Punching UDP Holes in Amazon EC2
13 Oct 2009 » Standalone Web Front Door a Must in EC2?
21 Sep 2009 » Security Groups - Most Underappreciated Feature of Amazon EC2
15 Sep 2009 » On Cloud Lock-In
08 Sep 2009 » Shiny Cloud APIs - Necessary But Not Sufficient
27 Jul 2009 » Evaluating Cloud Computing from Buy vs Rent Perspective
06 Jul 2009 » Developer's Attempt to Define Cloud Computing
04 Jun 2009 » How Long Ago Was This EC2 Instance Started?
04 Apr 2009 » Incentives and Cloud Computing Interoperability
27 Mar 2009 » My Comment on Open Federated Clouds
04 Mar 2009 » CohesiveFT Launches VPN-Cubed For Amazon EC2
04 Feb 2009 » APIs Foreva, or What If Cloud Computing Were a Bubble
05 Jan 2009 » Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) in IaaS Clouds
04 Dec 2008 » Technical Overview of CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed
29 Jul 2008 » When is a Cloud Not a Cloud
03 Jul 2008 » Let's Prove GigaOM Wrong On Enterprises + Clouds
20 Jun 2008 » EC2 Instances Always Boot to Runlevel 4
29 Feb 2008 » EC2 for Web Hosting

Category: linux (16)

04 Jan 2011 » chattr Against Sneaky Postinstall Scripts
21 Oct 2009 » Building Erlang R13B02-1
17 Apr 2009 » Don't Use OpenDNS On Servers
14 Apr 2009 » Compiling Erlang On Linux With Old Glibc
16 Feb 2009 » Protect Your Blog Against Misbehaving Bots With Apache
31 Oct 2008 » On Private IPv4 Address Spaces
30 Oct 2008 » Gotta Love Open Source
20 Jun 2008 » EC2 Instances Always Boot to Runlevel 4
09 May 2008 » VcubeV Idea Getting Followers?
14 Mar 2008 » "Least Used" Load Balancing
04 Mar 2008 » VcubeV review on Highscalability.com
03 Mar 2008 » My VcubeV Article Now Publicly Available
14 Feb 2008 » VBulletin and spam bots
03 Feb 2008 » VcubeV
07 Jan 2008 » Linux Journal publishes my article
21 Jun 2007 » Apache Config Trick: A Special Directory

Category: devops (15)

12 Apr 2016 » The Rise of New Operations
08 Apr 2015 » 5 Pitfalls of Increased Use of Statistics in Tech Ops
10 Sep 2014 » A Path to DevOps Through Platform/Product Alignment
02 Apr 2013 » Risk in IT Systems
28 Sep 2012 » Concise Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
04 Sep 2012 » Infrastructure As Code - Tiki-Taka of TechOps
30 Sep 2011 » Complex Systems: Generalists and Specialists
05 Sep 2011 » Troubleshooting
08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
06 Oct 2010 » Devops != Sysadmin
17 Aug 2010 » The Biggest Challenge for Infrastructure as Code
06 Jul 2010 » Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability?
13 Jun 2010 » Devops - Solution to a Problem, Not a Cure for All Ills
02 Mar 2010 » The Rise of DevOps
11 Jul 2008 » Operations Alerts and Tragedy of The Commons

Category: software-engineering (15)

01 Sep 2015 » Unexpected Downside of a SaaS
08 Jun 2011 » JSON vs XML in API
04 May 2010 » Developing API Server - Practical Rules of Thumb
06 Feb 2010 » On Dangers of Prematurely Making API Public
11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
18 Aug 2009 » The Concept of Hyper Distributed Application
10 Aug 2009 » Electrical and Plumbing Analogies in Application Monitoring
06 Jul 2009 » Developer's Attempt to Define Cloud Computing
25 Jun 2009 » Full Data vs Incremental Data in Messaging
11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
31 May 2009 » Branching In Git When Working On Big New Features
12 May 2009 » The Power of Knowing "Why?" in Software Engineering
09 Apr 2009 » Eliminating Single Points of Failure - One, Two, Many
11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
09 Jan 2009 » Perlbal Reproxy and HTTP Auth

Category: cohesiveft (12)

08 Jun 2011 » JSON vs XML in API
23 Jun 2010 » CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed as Networking Fabric of the Intercloud
18 Dec 2009 » Cloud Overlay Networks Demystified - Holiday Edition
04 Mar 2009 » CohesiveFT Launches VPN-Cubed For Amazon EC2
04 Dec 2008 » Technical Overview of CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed
28 Oct 2008 » More Cloud Magic from CohesiveFT
19 May 2008 » CohesiveFT Named One of 2008 Hottest Tech Startups by InfoWorld
23 Apr 2008 » Now Boarding: Elastic Passengers
10 Apr 2008 » One year at CohesiveFT
07 Mar 2008 » Elastic Servers - Available Without Registration
13 Feb 2008 » Wondering what I am doing at work?
03 Feb 2008 » VcubeV

Category: rabbitmq (10)

02 Dec 2009 » Hacking RabbitMQ - Remote Queue Forwarders
25 Jun 2009 » Full Data vs Incremental Data in Messaging
21 May 2009 » Graphite RabbitMQ Integration
11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
19 Feb 2009 » On rabbitmqctl and badrpc,nodedown
29 Jan 2009 » RabbitMQ and Rails
11 Nov 2008 » Using RabbitMQ Beyond Queueing
31 Jul 2008 » Slides for my AMQP/RabbitMQ Talk
24 Jun 2008 » Ruby + AMQP + RabbitMQ Example
02 Mar 2008 » Python AMQP client and non-blocking sockets

Category: economics (10)

15 Feb 2011 » On Nuances of Jevons Paradox in Cloud Computing
19 Jan 2011 » My Doubts About Idea Behind SpotCloud.com
14 Dec 2010 » Basics of IaaS Spot Pricing
09 Nov 2010 » Run on the Cloud
28 Sep 2010 » Dealing with Noisy Neighbors in the Cloud
13 Sep 2010 » Pricing in the Cloud
18 May 2010 » Activity Streams, Cross-Posting and Pareto Efficiency
04 Apr 2009 » Incentives and Cloud Computing Interoperability
11 Jul 2008 » Operations Alerts and Tragedy of The Commons
14 May 2008 » Terminology Fun - IT vs Economics

Category: ruby (10)

04 Mar 2011 » How I Organize Posts In Jekyll
07 Oct 2009 » Capistrano Auth Trick
11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
29 Jan 2009 » RabbitMQ and Rails
18 Dec 2008 » Introducing Rabbitbal
03 Dec 2008 » Forking Supervisor Daemon in Ruby
22 Sep 2008 » Rails update_attribute vs update_attributes
17 Jul 2008 » Selecting "FIELD AS NAME" in ActiveRecord Always Returns String
24 Jun 2008 » Ruby + AMQP + RabbitMQ Example

Category: infrastructure-development (8)

13 Jul 2011 » Network: From Hardware Past To Software Future
08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
22 Apr 2011 » Coffee and Design for Failure
17 Aug 2010 » The Biggest Challenge for Infrastructure as Code
06 Jul 2010 » Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability?
02 Mar 2010 » The Rise of DevOps
11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
02 Nov 2009 » Punching UDP Holes in Amazon EC2

Category: python (7)

16 Nov 2010 » Connecting to Eucalyptus Walrus (S3) with Boto and socket.gaierror
01 Sep 2010 » Extending EC2 API - ec2-describe-ipaddress-ranges
03 Aug 2010 » Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading
11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
21 May 2009 » Graphite RabbitMQ Integration
08 Apr 2008 » Google App Engine
02 Mar 2008 » Python AMQP client and non-blocking sockets

Category: internet (7)

08 Nov 2012 » The Dilemma of API
27 Jul 2011 » Following on Twitter Using RSS
26 Jun 2011 » Two Weeks on Twitter Without Reading My Timeline
17 Apr 2011 » Corporate Open Sourcing
21 Oct 2010 » Ecosystems and Platforms
18 May 2010 » Activity Streams, Cross-Posting and Pareto Efficiency
30 Jul 2009 » New Era in Internet Search - Google vs Bing

Category: blogging (6)

04 Mar 2011 » How I Organize Posts In Jekyll
02 Nov 2010 » Blog Redesign
18 Mar 2009 » The Ultimate Twitter
19 Nov 2008 » On Privacy of Private RSS Feeds
09 Sep 2008 » SEO and 301 Redirect
11 Mar 2008 » Yan's 5 Reasons to Have a Blog

Category: fun (6)

01 Apr 2011 » Reselling Your Cloud Instances
20 Jul 2010 » Russell's Paradox and Cloud Computing
20 Jan 2009 » My Case Against Maintenance Windows
08 Apr 2008 » Google App Engine
04 Apr 2008 » On project management
01 Apr 2008 » Best April Fools' Day Joke Today

Category: distributed (6)

05 Sep 2011 » Troubleshooting
11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
18 Aug 2009 » The Concept of Hyper Distributed Application
09 Apr 2009 » Eliminating Single Points of Failure - One, Two, Many
05 Jan 2009 » Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) in IaaS Clouds
10 Oct 2008 » Crash vs Connectivity Loss in Distributed Applications

Category: erlang (5)

02 Dec 2009 » Hacking RabbitMQ - Remote Queue Forwarders
21 Oct 2009 » Building Erlang R13B02-1
14 Apr 2009 » Compiling Erlang On Linux With Old Glibc
19 Feb 2009 » On rabbitmqctl and badrpc,nodedown
22 Apr 2008 » Snoopy Fubars Erlang

Category: virtualization (2)

31 Mar 2008 » Benefits of Virtualization - Part 2
26 Mar 2008 » Benefits of Virtualization

Category: startup (1)

28 Dec 2015 » On Employees Investing In Their Startups