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Taming the AWS API with statistics

Posted by wattersjames on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @01:24AM
from the blog.cloudfoundry.com dept.

http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/2013/06/18/dealing-with-eventual-consistency-in-the-aws-ec2-api/

Having all this data at hand has allowed us to create better algorithms for waiting for AWS resources. For example, when we create an instance, we know there isn’t any point in checking until around 20 seconds as it is the earliest we see a newly created instance running, and after 90 seconds it is highly unlikely it will ever run, so we can focus the waiting and polling around the sweet spot...

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Economics of Application Virtulization on AWS

Posted by wattersjames on Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:27AM
from the wattersjames.com dept.

http://wattersjames.com/2013/05/09/economics-of-application-virtulization-on-aws/

Given current EC2 pricing, deploying your application tier directly to EC2 VMs is the wrong architecture for many use cases. Using a Linux Container isolated and application centric platform can provide up to 10x+ hard cost savings vs. a VM instance based approach.

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Re:How Cloudfuji (S11) uses Cloud Foundry to make open source Apps big... on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:23AM (#4083432)
I'm not an evangelist, but I am a member of the Cloud Foundry team, and responsible for partner development and ecosystem.

I think you are creating a straw man question as the overwhelming majority of partners have open sourced most/all of the applicable code. Take a look at http://www.ironfoundry.org for instance from Tier3 who has taken a very liberal approach to open source with their Cloud Foundry based service.

Appfog has also contributed back their code for PHP to Cloud Foundry. They are doing a very nice job of expanding the potential deployment targets as one of their competitive advantages (HP, Joyent, most EC2 regions).

Thus to answer your question I've seen robust contributions back with a very liberal amount of open source code, and a focus on value-add through service delivery options.

I'm curious about your view of the hybrid deployment model many of our users prefer with an on-prem instance that can be deployed to multiple service providers.

Re:How Cloudfuji (S11) uses Cloud Foundry to make open source Apps big... on Thursday June 07, 2012 @10:28PM (#4082333)
Solomon, wait, just 2 days ago you said CF was throw away code and not on your radar? Care to explain your pivot to 'intriguing'?

https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/209895170194423808

Re:Man Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Li... on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:45PM (#3254605)
Don't be so sure this started as a PR pitch...Cade has been covering Cloud Foundry and Appfog since they adopted Cloud Foundry, see all of his articles about it over at the Register, example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/appfog_adds_ruby_and...
Re:Cloud Foundry Adds PHP and Python on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:11AM (#2927805)
Yes it is, and we aren't going away any time soon. :) We'll more than be here in five years.
Re:Cloud Foundry adds PHP, Python; AppFog now a user on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:53AM (#2923901)
Congrats to Lucas on a bold move to shake up the PaaS start-up space.
Re:VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @04:52PM (#2439226)
If you are in the bay area on the 13th the Cloud Foundry team is hosting its first meetup. Come ask the tough questions to engineering:

http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/events/17187485/

The Unfolding Cloud Fractal: Of Slime Mold and Neurons

Posted by wattersjames on Saturday July 10, 2010 @07:30AM
from the wattersjames.posterous.com dept.

http://wattersjames.posterous.com/the-unfolding-cloud-fractal-of-slime-mold-and

The themes this week, however, were not jitter--they are the cutting edge of the "cloud" evolution. The cutting edge of cloud has shifted from an "if" to a how, and the minds who saw the cloud coming years before the general public are now confronting the balancing act between intrinsically lower featured, topologically insensitive cloud formations represented by certain volume leading de facto...

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Re:The Cloud Isn’t a Mainframe. Seriously. on Friday October 23, 2009 @08:47PM (#899921)
I think the point I'm really trying to make is that you can't just load a program into the cloud. The cloud is more like a software based mainframe if anything, but it requires a whole new set of architectures and a different way of thinking--and has radically different economic forces.
Re:What if Microsoft and Danger #Cloudfail turns out to be a #SANfail? on Monday October 12, 2009 @05:44PM (#877725)
Its easier to trust someone with your data, if they have triple redundancy built into their architecture. S3 has that built in; a single MS SAN box does not. That's why its an important distinction.

You trust people with the right, next generation trust worthy architecture.

Re:What if Microsoft and Danger #Cloudfail turns out to be a #SANfail? on Monday October 12, 2009 @02:38PM (#877352)
Cloud storage systems like S3 are often inferior in raw latency/response performance to a SAN which has VERY expensive adaptor silicon in it--but they are far superior on built in automatic, systematic, redundancy and global fail over and dispersal.
Re:The Curious Case for Impulse Computing on Friday September 25, 2009 @04:53PM (#844342)
Its the Y combinator guys I was thinking of when I wrote this one. Sincerely curious for their thoughts.
Re:An Entrepreneurial Counter Culture is Looming – The Startup Market ... on Sunday September 20, 2009 @02:08AM (#832792)
With cloud computing rising to prominence as the underpinning of many modern web applications the amount of technology already 'assumed' in any new application design.

This trend seems to align with John's key point.

Re: Not So Fast Public Cloud: Big Players Still Run Privately on Monday August 24, 2009 @01:49AM (#781580)
Great line to pull out, and most relevant to the Y crowd for sure. What's interesting is that all of that hacker success has really made enterprises take notice and they are trying to figure out the magic too. Problem is they aren't nearly as nimble at writing new apps for this paradigm.
Re:Is Science As Important As Football? on Thursday June 04, 2009 @03:10PM (#641984)
Let's not confuse science and NASA too much in the discussion here I'd say. Flying the existing shuttle back and forth to space for 3 decades is as much dog and pony as it is science.

I'd like to agree with part of this article though. The science olympiad would have been a LOT more fun if the contest was to create the biggest explosion instead of the strongest toothpick bridge.

Re:Seth Godin's MBA Program Candidates & the Startups they're launching on Thursday June 04, 2009 @02:54PM (#641952)
Godin wonder's why people pay for MBA's but he doesn't shrink from having his Stanford MBA on his resume. In a sea of ambition noise people use pedigree as a filter; perhaps having been chosen for this MBA alone will be the real resume and career boost.