Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb - The Diigo Meta page

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  debbie landa

  cloudcomputing readwriteweb amazon cloud scalability

• 17 Aug 08
  

  DJHell .

  On Friday, a massive outage occured at Amazon Web Services that generated a wave of negativity and criticism in the blogosphere. Not long ago, Rackspace, one of the world's largest hosting companies, experienced a outage that resulted in a similar reactio

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• 10 Aug 08
  

  he yin
• 27 Jun 08
  

  Suhit Anantula

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• 08 Apr 08
  

  david waxman

  vitaband infrastructure

• 24 Feb 08
  

  Julie Starr

  cloud cloud-computing scalability amazon web trends

• 21 Feb 08
  

  Stefan Melles

  The ideas behind cloud computing (power grids like Amazon Web Services) and why it will be an integral part of our future.

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• 20 Feb 08
  

  Sander van Zoest

  ydn webservices virtualization

• 19 Feb 08
  

  FruFru FourOne

  cloudcomputing internet business tech scalability via:tuckermax

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  Turker K

  cloud_computing scalability

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  Boris Mann

  Lots of talk on clouds recently, and also hitting on the fact that relational DBs are problematic...

  AWS amazon cloudcomputing virtualization LAMP RDBMS

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  Martin Carel
  • Albert Wenger said something to me recently that stuck in
    my head: We live in a stochastic world, but people fail to grasp it because all they experience is right now.
  • .
    > The first scalability issue is fairly minor - threads and socket connections
    of the Apache web server.
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  • • The first scalability issue is fairly minor - threads and socket connections
    • The problem with LAMP is in its scalability.
    • But the
      second problem with LAMP is far more significant - the MySQL relational database is the ultimate bottleneck of the system.
    • The load balancer forwards a request to any one box and it is processed
      in a stateless manner - meaning the request is followed by an immediate response and no state is held by the system.
      The beauty of the cloud is in its scalability - you scale by simply adding more boxes.
    • Whatever is part of your
      core business you build. Everything else you buy.
    • By focusing on what truly
      makes you unique and different you have the chance to beat the competition.
    • It is not a single failure of the system
      that is indicative of the performance. It is the frequency of failures that we should look for.
    • The point is,
      as Albert Wegner explained, we need to think about this stochastically.
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  Mike King

  MySQL ecommerce web2.0

• 18 Feb 08
  

  Krishnan Subramanian

  cloudcomputing distributed computing cloud readwriteweb

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  Martin Weigert

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  Tac Anderson

  amazon cloud computing ncb

Page Comments

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  Tac Anderson on 2008-02-18
  ReadWriteWeb does a great job of explaining what exactly Cloud Computing is.  Unless you've been hiding under a rock you've probably heard the term recently and if you haven't, get used to it, you'll hear it a lot.
  
  Especially as the Web becomes more mobile, cloud computing will become ever more important. 
  
  Amazon's S3 outage demonstrates the limitations in the cloud and, for me, demonstrates why some sort of distributed Cloud/Host system will always be required for apps. 
  
  

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