Coding in the Cloud By Adrian Otto This post kicks off a series on rules for coding in the cloud. I’ve taken some notes – mainly from observing applications fail repeatedly. And what do I mean by failing? The trouble usually comes in one of three forms: o Not scaling as traffic comes in. o [...]
Last month we kicked off this contest, asking for your vote on your favorite Twitter Applications. The votes are in, and TweetDeck topped the deck with 25% of the overall vote! Tweetie was a close runner-up at 21%, followed by dailyRT at 12% and twhirl at 6%. Some of the other nominees? Digsby, Hootsuite, and [...]
Jonathan Ellis, System Architect for The Rackspace Cloud here. Last week I flew to California to attend the Hadoop Summit and NoSQL conference. Hadoop is the leading open-source project for MapReduce computation and supporting infrastructure (such as HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed FileSystem based on the GFS design). The 2008 Hadoop summit saw about 150 attendees; [...]
Striving to keep up with the sometimes blinding speed of the internet age? Join Matt Tanase, Slicehost Founder, for a 5-minute keynote at the Velocity conference, June 22-24 in San Jose, where industry leaders will study and learn from sites like Flickr and Facebook, discuss the latest performance tools that make pages load faster, explore [...]
Join The Rackspace Cloud, Om Malik, and The GigaOM Network this June 25th in San Francisco for an exploration of the future of the cloud. Lew Moorman, President of Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer for Rackspace Hosting, will be participating in a panel titled “Building the Perfect Host for Web Apps” starting at 9:00 a.m. [...]
