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Category: cloud-computing (50)
- 04 Aug 2013 » Response To Simon Wardley: Innovation in Interface Implementations
- 10 Jan 2013 » What "Software Defined" Actually Means
- 05 Jul 2012 » Applying 5 Whys to Amazon EC2 Outage
- 09 Apr 2012 » How AWS Could Improve Spot Market
- 27 Feb 2012 » Amazon Web Services and Innovator's Dilemma
- 10 Jan 2012 » On Amazon EC2 Spot Price Spikes
- 11 Oct 2011 » VXLAN and NVGRE - Not a Long Term Answer
- 03 Aug 2011 » Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - A Flop?
- 13 Jul 2011 » Network: From Hardware Past To Software Future
- 25 May 2011 » IaaS vs PaaS
- 08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
- 20 Mar 2011 » Netflix The Rising Star of Cloud
- 15 Feb 2011 » On Nuances of Jevons Paradox in Cloud Computing
- 02 Feb 2011 » Cloud As Application Data Exchange Point
- 19 Jan 2011 » My Doubts About Idea Behind SpotCloud.com
- 14 Dec 2010 » Basics of IaaS Spot Pricing
- 02 Dec 2010 » Unexpected Similarities in EC2 Spot Price History Between Regions
- 16 Nov 2010 » Connecting to Eucalyptus Walrus (S3) with Boto and socket.gaierror
- 09 Nov 2010 » Run on the Cloud
- 28 Sep 2010 » Dealing with Noisy Neighbors in the Cloud
- 13 Sep 2010 » Pricing in the Cloud
- 01 Sep 2010 » Extending EC2 API - ec2-describe-ipaddress-ranges
- 03 Aug 2010 » Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading
- 20 Jul 2010 » Russell's Paradox and Cloud Computing
- 23 Jun 2010 » CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed as Networking Fabric of the Intercloud
- 30 Mar 2010 » Probing Ports in Remote Security Groups in EC2
- 23 Mar 2010 » IaaS, Hype and Marginal Cost
- 16 Feb 2010 » Workloads in Cloud Computing
- 26 Jan 2010 » Digging into EC2 Spot Price History
- 18 Dec 2009 » Cloud Overlay Networks Demystified - Holiday Edition
- 13 Dec 2009 » My Thoughts After CloudCamp Boston 2009
- 17 Nov 2009 » Costs vs Agility as Drivers for Cloud Computing
- 02 Nov 2009 » Punching UDP Holes in Amazon EC2
- 13 Oct 2009 » Standalone Web Front Door a Must in EC2?
- 21 Sep 2009 » Security Groups - Most Underappreciated Feature of Amazon EC2
- 15 Sep 2009 » On Cloud Lock-In
- 08 Sep 2009 » Shiny Cloud APIs - Necessary But Not Sufficient
- 27 Jul 2009 » Evaluating Cloud Computing from Buy vs Rent Perspective
- 06 Jul 2009 » Developer's Attempt to Define Cloud Computing
- 04 Jun 2009 » How Long Ago Was This EC2 Instance Started?
- 04 Apr 2009 » Incentives and Cloud Computing Interoperability
- 27 Mar 2009 » My Comment on Open Federated Clouds
- 04 Mar 2009 » CohesiveFT Launches VPN-Cubed For Amazon EC2
- 04 Feb 2009 » APIs Foreva, or What If Cloud Computing Were a Bubble
- 05 Jan 2009 » Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) in IaaS Clouds
- 04 Dec 2008 » Technical Overview of CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed
- 29 Jul 2008 » When is a Cloud Not a Cloud
- 03 Jul 2008 » Let's Prove GigaOM Wrong On Enterprises + Clouds
- 20 Jun 2008 » EC2 Instances Always Boot to Runlevel 4
- 29 Feb 2008 » EC2 for Web Hosting
Category: linux (16)
- 04 Jan 2011 » chattr Against Sneaky Postinstall Scripts
- 21 Oct 2009 » Building Erlang R13B02-1
- 17 Apr 2009 » Don't Use OpenDNS On Servers
- 14 Apr 2009 » Compiling Erlang On Linux With Old Glibc
- 16 Feb 2009 » Protect Your Blog Against Misbehaving Bots With Apache
- 31 Oct 2008 » On Private IPv4 Address Spaces
- 30 Oct 2008 » Gotta Love Open Source
- 20 Jun 2008 » EC2 Instances Always Boot to Runlevel 4
- 09 May 2008 » VcubeV Idea Getting Followers?
- 14 Mar 2008 » "Least Used" Load Balancing
- 04 Mar 2008 » VcubeV review on Highscalability.com
- 03 Mar 2008 » My VcubeV Article Now Publicly Available
- 14 Feb 2008 » VBulletin and spam bots
- 03 Feb 2008 » VcubeV
- 07 Jan 2008 » Linux Journal publishes my article
- 21 Jun 2007 » Apache Config Trick: A Special Directory
Category: software-engineering (14)
- 08 Jun 2011 » JSON vs XML in API
- 04 May 2010 » Developing API Server - Practical Rules of Thumb
- 06 Feb 2010 » On Dangers of Prematurely Making API Public
- 11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
- 18 Aug 2009 » The Concept of Hyper Distributed Application
- 10 Aug 2009 » Electrical and Plumbing Analogies in Application Monitoring
- 06 Jul 2009 » Developer's Attempt to Define Cloud Computing
- 25 Jun 2009 » Full Data vs Incremental Data in Messaging
- 11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
- 31 May 2009 » Branching In Git When Working On Big New Features
- 12 May 2009 » The Power of Knowing "Why?" in Software Engineering
- 09 Apr 2009 » Eliminating Single Points of Failure - One, Two, Many
- 11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
- 09 Jan 2009 » Perlbal Reproxy and HTTP Auth
Category: devops (12)
- 02 Apr 2013 » Risk in IT Systems
- 28 Sep 2012 » Concise Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
- 04 Sep 2012 » Infrastructure As Code - Tiki-Taka of TechOps
- 30 Sep 2011 » Complex Systems: Generalists and Specialists
- 05 Sep 2011 » Troubleshooting
- 08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
- 06 Oct 2010 » Devops != Sysadmin
- 17 Aug 2010 » The Biggest Challenge for Infrastructure as Code
- 06 Jul 2010 » Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability?
- 13 Jun 2010 » Devops - Solution to a Problem, Not a Cure for All Ills
- 02 Mar 2010 » The Rise of DevOps
- 11 Jul 2008 » Operations Alerts and Tragedy of The Commons
Category: cohesiveft (12)
- 08 Jun 2011 » JSON vs XML in API
- 23 Jun 2010 » CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed as Networking Fabric of the Intercloud
- 18 Dec 2009 » Cloud Overlay Networks Demystified - Holiday Edition
- 04 Mar 2009 » CohesiveFT Launches VPN-Cubed For Amazon EC2
- 04 Dec 2008 » Technical Overview of CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed
- 28 Oct 2008 » More Cloud Magic from CohesiveFT
- 19 May 2008 » CohesiveFT Named One of 2008 Hottest Tech Startups by InfoWorld
- 23 Apr 2008 » Now Boarding: Elastic Passengers
- 10 Apr 2008 » One year at CohesiveFT
- 07 Mar 2008 » Elastic Servers - Available Without Registration
- 13 Feb 2008 » Wondering what I am doing at work?
- 03 Feb 2008 » VcubeV
Category: economics (10)
- 15 Feb 2011 » On Nuances of Jevons Paradox in Cloud Computing
- 19 Jan 2011 » My Doubts About Idea Behind SpotCloud.com
- 14 Dec 2010 » Basics of IaaS Spot Pricing
- 09 Nov 2010 » Run on the Cloud
- 28 Sep 2010 » Dealing with Noisy Neighbors in the Cloud
- 13 Sep 2010 » Pricing in the Cloud
- 18 May 2010 » Activity Streams, Cross-Posting and Pareto Efficiency
- 04 Apr 2009 » Incentives and Cloud Computing Interoperability
- 11 Jul 2008 » Operations Alerts and Tragedy of The Commons
- 14 May 2008 » Terminology Fun - IT vs Economics
Category: ruby (10)
- 04 Mar 2011 » How I Organize Posts In Jekyll
- 07 Oct 2009 » Capistrano Auth Trick
- 11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
- 11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
- 29 Jan 2009 » RabbitMQ and Rails
- 18 Dec 2008 » Introducing Rabbitbal
- 03 Dec 2008 » Forking Supervisor Daemon in Ruby
- 22 Sep 2008 » Rails update_attribute vs update_attributes
- 17 Jul 2008 » Selecting "FIELD AS NAME" in ActiveRecord Always Returns String
- 24 Jun 2008 » Ruby + AMQP + RabbitMQ Example
Category: rabbitmq (10)
- 02 Dec 2009 » Hacking RabbitMQ - Remote Queue Forwarders
- 25 Jun 2009 » Full Data vs Incremental Data in Messaging
- 21 May 2009 » Graphite RabbitMQ Integration
- 11 Mar 2009 » Adjustable Per-URI Backend Capacity in Rabbitbal
- 19 Feb 2009 » On rabbitmqctl and badrpc,nodedown
- 29 Jan 2009 » RabbitMQ and Rails
- 11 Nov 2008 » Using RabbitMQ Beyond Queueing
- 31 Jul 2008 » Slides for my AMQP/RabbitMQ Talk
- 24 Jun 2008 » Ruby + AMQP + RabbitMQ Example
- 02 Mar 2008 » Python AMQP client and non-blocking sockets
Category: infrastructure-development (8)
- 13 Jul 2011 » Network: From Hardware Past To Software Future
- 08 May 2011 » On Importance of Planning for Failure
- 22 Apr 2011 » Coffee and Design for Failure
- 17 Aug 2010 » The Biggest Challenge for Infrastructure as Code
- 06 Jul 2010 » Are You a Responsible Owner of Your Availability?
- 02 Mar 2010 » The Rise of DevOps
- 11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
- 02 Nov 2009 » Punching UDP Holes in Amazon EC2
Category: python (7)
- 16 Nov 2010 » Connecting to Eucalyptus Walrus (S3) with Boto and socket.gaierror
- 01 Sep 2010 » Extending EC2 API - ec2-describe-ipaddress-ranges
- 03 Aug 2010 » Parallelize Your EC2 API Calls with Python, Boto and Threading
- 11 Jun 2009 » Why I Sometimes Prefer Shell To Ruby or Python
- 21 May 2009 » Graphite RabbitMQ Integration
- 08 Apr 2008 » Google App Engine
- 02 Mar 2008 » Python AMQP client and non-blocking sockets
Category: internet (7)
- 08 Nov 2012 » The Dilemma of API
- 27 Jul 2011 » Following on Twitter Using RSS
- 26 Jun 2011 » Two Weeks on Twitter Without Reading My Timeline
- 17 Apr 2011 » Corporate Open Sourcing
- 21 Oct 2010 » Ecosystems and Platforms
- 18 May 2010 » Activity Streams, Cross-Posting and Pareto Efficiency
- 30 Jul 2009 » New Era in Internet Search - Google vs Bing
Category: blogging (6)
- 04 Mar 2011 » How I Organize Posts In Jekyll
- 02 Nov 2010 » Blog Redesign
- 18 Mar 2009 » The Ultimate Twitter
- 19 Nov 2008 » On Privacy of Private RSS Feeds
- 09 Sep 2008 » SEO and 301 Redirect
- 11 Mar 2008 » Yan's 5 Reasons to Have a Blog
Category: distributed (6)
- 05 Sep 2011 » Troubleshooting
- 11 Jan 2010 » Normal Accidents in Complex IT Systems
- 18 Aug 2009 » The Concept of Hyper Distributed Application
- 09 Apr 2009 » Eliminating Single Points of Failure - One, Two, Many
- 05 Jan 2009 » Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) in IaaS Clouds
- 10 Oct 2008 » Crash vs Connectivity Loss in Distributed Applications
Category: fun (6)
- 01 Apr 2011 » Reselling Your Cloud Instances
- 20 Jul 2010 » Russell's Paradox and Cloud Computing
- 20 Jan 2009 » My Case Against Maintenance Windows
- 08 Apr 2008 » Google App Engine
- 04 Apr 2008 » On project management
- 01 Apr 2008 » Best April Fools' Day Joke Today
Category: erlang (5)
- 02 Dec 2009 » Hacking RabbitMQ - Remote Queue Forwarders
- 21 Oct 2009 » Building Erlang R13B02-1
- 14 Apr 2009 » Compiling Erlang On Linux With Old Glibc
- 19 Feb 2009 » On rabbitmqctl and badrpc,nodedown
- 22 Apr 2008 » Snoopy Fubars Erlang
Category: virtualization (2)
- 31 Mar 2008 » Benefits of Virtualization - Part 2
- 26 Mar 2008 » Benefits of Virtualization