I’ll be one of two speakers at the next Seattle Web Technology Bi-Weekly Meet up on Nov 21 at the Citrus Lounge. They’ve sexed it up a little by calling it a face-off between Windows Azure and Amazon EC2  (no prizes fo

Saw this awesome infographic by Cloud Spectator on twitter today. A great snapshot of the expected growth in Cloud Computing. If the Cloud Computing market was stacked up against world economies it would be the 51st largest in the

Amazon’s spot market for computing power is set up as an open market for surplus servers. The price is dynamic and depends on demand. So when demand is low, you can get computing instances for rock bottom prices. When you do

 Oracle starts charging for MySQL Add-ons Exciting news, Oracle just announced commercial MySQL extensions that they’ll be offering paid extensions to the core MySQL free product. To be sure, this has raised waves of concern

1. Object Relational Mappers Software development has always made use of libraries, off-the-shelf components that are shared between different projects.  These allow you to stand on the shoulders of others and build bigger things.

When migrating to the cloud consider security and resource variability, the cultural shift for operations and the new cost model.

1. This page or area of the website is very slow, why? There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud.  Website performance starts with the browser, what caching it

With the fast growth of virtualized data centers, and companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, it’s easy to forget how much is built on open-source components, aka commodity software.  In a very real way open-source has e

One very strong case for cloud computing is that it can satisfy applications with seasonal traffic patterns.  One way to test the advantages of the cloud is through a hybrid approach. Cloud infrastructure can be built completely t

If you’re headhunting a cloud computing expert, specifically someone who knows Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EC2, you’ll want to have a battery of questions to ask them to assess their knowledge.  As with any technical