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West Coast Grid: Of Course Scaling Matters!
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Thursday, December 08, 2005. Of Course Scaling Matters! The controversy over at Jeremy Wright’s Blog. Which started with this post. Hasn't slowed down much. He's gotten a ton of comments, flames, and posts. He defends himself here. Small things like managing how transactions occur, having separate database connections for reading and writing, making your app able to handle variable state sessions, etc are key.
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West Coast Grid: November 2007
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Monday, November 12, 2007. See you at SuperComputing! One more time: see you in Reno at SuperComputing. I've got a bunch of meetings, but when I'm not in a meeting I'll be standing in the AMD booth showing off a .NET deskside "supercomputer." (I have to put that in quotes because there will be real. Super computers there.). So watch this space, but watch that space, too. Posted by Dan Ciruli. Posted by Dan Ciruli.
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West Coast Grid: I'm all for scalability
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Friday, August 01, 2008. I'm all for scalability. I love being quoted by that coffee-roasting, free-diving, Hawai'i living, .NET expert Larry O'Brien. So I was quite please to read my name in his latest SD Times column. He quoted a tweet (yes, I love Twitter. Where I quoted a fellow CloudCamp attendee saying "Designing your app to scale is guaranteed failure—it will take too long to write.". Coincided with my own.
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West Coast Grid: Sarah Perez Looks at Microsoft's Cloud
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Sarah Perez Looks at Microsoft's Cloud. Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb. Has a pretty darn good post. Up about Microsoft's cloud efforts (at least the publicly announced cloud efforts). Their vision of a "connected OS" is deeper than anything I see from any vendor. Their software stack spans consumer apps and enterprise apps. But as Sarah points out, Ray Ozzie's Microsoft 2.0 is focused on t...
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West Coast Grid: Vogels on Scalability
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Monday, April 03, 2006. Last December I participated in a bit of a debate. About scalability. My main point (I was agreeing with Jeremy Wright. At the time) was that good software has scalability designed in from the beginning. To quote myself:. Well, on Thursday my sentiment was echoed by a pretty powerful voice: Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. In his post A Word on Scalability. Vogels sums it perfectly:. Hetero...
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West Coast Grid: Web 2.0 Companies NEED To Scale
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Tuesday, December 06, 2005. Web 20 Companies NEED To Scale. Sometimes I read a blog post and it just makes me smile. Talks about the need for scaleability for Web 2.0 companies (he's specifically talking about an announcement. Listen up. If your company relies on the web to stay alive, you’d damn well better be using at least some of the following “ladder to high availability”:. To plan for success. They have.
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West Coast Grid: March 2008
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Friday, March 07, 2008. Desktop software is hard, eh Google? I was excited to hear about Google Calendar Sync. I got a Blackberry Curve last week, and I've been playing around with the best way to get both my personal (Google) and business (Outlook) calendars sync'd with it. But with the Google Sync download for my phone, it started grabbing my Google Calendar items with no problem. Has anyone else seen this? And m...
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West Coast Grid: Is Online Gaming Cloud Computing's Killer App?
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Is Online Gaming Cloud Computing's Killer App? If you haven't seen the video showcasing OnLive's. Online gaming platform from this year's Game Developers Conference. You should check it out here. It seems that latency would be a huge issue, even on those high bandwidth connections - they claim that it's imperceptible, but only real game play will tell. If their product does everything that...
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Morgan Stanley’s Matrix wins Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative | newyorkscot
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Technology, projects and marketing in financial services. Morgan Stanley’s Matrix wins Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative. December 7, 2010. Posted by newyorkscot in Markets. At the American Financial Technology Awards ceremony last night Matrix. Was crowned as Best Cross-Asset Trading Initiative, ahead of the GS and HSBC entries. Http:/ www.aftas.org/static/winners-2010. April 8, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Build a w...
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West Coast Grid: Grids? Clusters? Distributed Computing?
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Grid computing, distributed computing, SOA, SaaS, and .NET- and how they all fit together. Monday, October 10, 2005. There's a interesting article. Today on the use of the word "cluster" versus the use of the word "grid.". John K. Waters interviews Donald Becker. Co-founder of the original Beowulf project. Becker points out that a lot of people use the word "grid" when describing something a lot narrower than "grid" may imply. Start with hours of discussion over what "grid" means. Simply because more peo...
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