Posts tagged ‘Cloud computing’
How to Synch S3 Buckets in AWS and design for failover
News of last night’s problems with the Virginia Data Centers power system taking down sites like Netflix and Pinterestshows that sometimes not programming for fail over or data center failure is a pretty foolish thing to do. Especially with costs somewhat reasonable per gigabyte in Amazon’s S3 system. Anyone who does not program for fail [...]
The Master Switch by Tim Wu book review
It is not often that you read a book that simply makes sense, and Tim Wu strings together a series of events evocative of the old “connections” TV show. Tim paints a picture of the difficulties that companies have cannibalizing current product lines and products in favor of the next big thing. By using AT&T [...]
New Book on Cloud Computing
In case you have been wondering what has been keeping me busy, the InfoSec Institute out of Chicago has requested that I write down everything I know about Cloud Computing, and this is turning into an interesting project. As I am nearing my deadline, and finishing up the book on Advanced Cloud Computing for ISI, [...]