After John Allspaw and Steve Souders caper about in fake muscles, we get started with the keynotes. Building for a Billion Users (Facebook) Jay Parikh, Facebook, spoke about building for a billion users. Several folks yesterday warned with phrases like…
As I write this, our ops team is working furiously to bring up systems outside Amazon’s US East region to recover from the widespread outage they are having this morning. Naturally the Twitterverse, and in a day the blogosphere, and…
Hey, I’m not a sales guy, and none of us spend a lot of time on this blog pimping our company’s products, but we’re pretty proud of our work on them and I figured I’d toss them out there as…
We’ve been using over 100 Amazon EC2 instances for a year now, but I’ve just now made my first reserve instance purchase. For the untutored, reserve instances are where you pay a yearly upfront per instance and you get a…
You may have heard about Amazon’s newest offering they announced today, CloudFormation. It’s the new hotness, but I see a lot of confusion in the Twitterverse about what it is and how it fits into the landscape of IaaS/PaaS/Elastic Beanstalk/etc.…
Hey all, I just wanted to take a moment to share with you that our first cloud-based product just went live! LabVIEW Web UI Builder is National Instruments’ first SaaS application. It’s actually free to use, go to ni.com and…
There are a couple military concepts that have bled into technology and in particular into IT security, a DMZ being one of them. A Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a concept where there is established control for what comes in and…
Ohhh my aching head. Apparently this is a commonly held problem, as the keynote hall is much more sparsely attended at 8:30 AM today than it was yesterday. Some great fun last night, we hung with the Cloudkick and Turner…
In the recent Amazon AWS Newsletter, they asked the following: Some customers have asked us about ways to easily convert virtual machines from VMware vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, and Microsoft Hyper-V to Amazon EC2 instances – and vice versa. If…
Here’s a couple tidbits I’ve gleaned that are useful. When you start an “instance-store” Amazon EC2 instance, you get a certain amount of ephemeral storage allocated and mounted automatically. The amount of space varies by instance size and is defined…
