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What’s your culture? Ask yourself.

I recently completed reading this book. One of the challenges the book asks, is to judge your…

Comcast-Netflix Deal

Reading this article makes my head swim with technology advances which could side step this entire problem.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/comcast-and-netflix-reach-a-streaming-agreement.html?_r=0)

PaaS: Cold Object Storage

Platform as a service object storage offerings typically solve one of two problems. First, basic object based storage with uniform storage attributes and access patterns. Second, object storage offering long term archival in exchange for sacrificing access latency. I suggest there…

PaaS: Zookeeper as a Service

What is Zookeeper?

“ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed…

Semantics of PaaS

Crafting platform as a service offerings from existing software such as MongoDB, Cassandra, memcached, redis, mysqld, zookeeper, etc… typically requires you to think about that software in a different way than most implementations. Typically, I decompose these applications down into three topical…

Groovy Invitation

You know, you really have to love it when your interns have a sense of humor and have spent way too much time coding :)

public class KeepThePartyGoin

{
private String what;
private String when;
private String where;
private String why;

Costa Rica

I’m thankful to have a break from the grind. I spent the week with my brother and his family in Costa Rica. Caught up on reading and my Spanish has improved, albeit remedial. I can’t wait to come back!

Decomposing Services

Moving from traditional infrastructure services to platform as a service requires you to understand the nature of the applications you are migrating. In a typical IT shop, the application team requests servers (physical or virtual), a quantity and type of storage (100GB of RAID5), and…