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Clouds are complex, but simplicity scales; a winning strategy for cloud builders
All cloud systems are inherently complex, and complexity is inherently evil. You can’t avoid complexity, since the size and scale that drives efficiency also adds complexity. However, you can choose...
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Opscode, Chef and Automation: Jesse Robbins Video
Reposting is not something we do often, but this was too good to pass up. Jesse Robbins of Opscode gave an exceptional 20-minute keynote at Cloud Connect last month. Check out the video of his keynote...
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Laying a Foundation
When we first began supporting the OpenStack project, we saw in it something that other open source cloud software projects did not have. OpenStack offered a path forward for companies that wanted to...
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Simplicity Scales: An Alternative Approach to OpenStack Nova RPC Messaging
Earlier this week, Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) of Cloudscaling presented an alternative mechanism for OpenStack Compute (Nova) RPC. For those who are new to OpenStack or simply haven’t had time to delve...
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Production Engineering and OpenStack
(A version of this post originally appeared at my personal blog.) On April 19th, I gave a brief presentation at the San Francisco Large Scale Production Engineering (LSPE) meetup group. The night’s...
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Lesson in simplified storage shows how complexity fails
(This post originally appeared at O’Reilly Radar.) The default approach to most complex problems is to engineer a complex solution. We see this in IT, generally, and in cloud computing specifically....
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Presentation to OpenStack Los Angeles Meetup
(This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared at my personal blog, constructolution.) Last week I took a trip down to L.A. to attend the #OSLAX meetup and presented my talk on...
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A response to Geoffrey Moore: Manifest Disruption
Sometimes, when you see something sufficiently off-track, you need to respond, even when the person in question may be a personal hero of yours. Geoffrey Moore (yes *that* one), recently wrote an...
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Deploying and Scaling Stackato Private PaaS on Open Cloud System
(This post submitted by Diane Mueller of ActiveState.)The logical step for an enterprise that has an elastic cloud up and running is to deploy applications. Following ActiveState’s recent Stackato...
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Vote on OpenStack Summit Speaking Submissions
(Note: Deadline is Monday, February 25.)On April 15, a record crowd of as many as 2,500 people will descend on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for what will be the largest gathering of...
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