AWS

Aardig stuk over AWS in Wired.

App Engine op EC2

Men heeft het voro mekaar gekregen om Google's App Engine te laten draaien op Amazon's EC2....

Daar is Google

Daar is ie dan: het applicatieplatform App Engine van Google (ruwweg de evenknie van EC2 van Amazon en Force van Salesforce.com).

Opzet is iets anders. Ik moet er nog naar kijken.

Werkelijkheid

De werkelijkheid volgens Michael Nygard.

De conclusie: "Commerce companies underperform their potential" is duidelijk.

containers

Voor de aardigheid: over de datacenter containers van Microsoft.

"We're looking at using containers inside our future data centers. One of the things we like about them is we can take a bunch of servers and look at the output of that box and look at the power it draws. At the end of the day, we can determine, "What is the IT productivity of that unit? How many search queries were executed per box? How many emails sent or stored?" You can get into some really interesting metrics. A lot of people say you can't look at the productivity of a data center, but if you compartmentalize it -- not as small as the server level, but at some chunk in between -- you can measure productivity."

Fascinerend.