Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Following up on our Date with the CloudFront Operations Manager we have just released our public test results using a small 1.6kb object (a small gif file). The results of the tests can be found here, Amazon CloudFront / S3 Small Object Test Results
In a nutshell, we found a fairly significant performance improvement using [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Just coming off a ten day vacation, I was planning to write a few posts on a few “pure” scientific topics like string theory, complexity, and emergence. However, a few folks contacted me and asked me my opinion on TIBCO Silver; so, I thought I would at least blog on my first impressions.
TIBCO’s marketing [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Uploading data, for example your off-site backup files, to Amazon S3 is easier than you might think. Here are some basic steps with links.
First, set up an Amazon AWS account if you don’t already have one. You will need a credit card (of course!). Then, create your Access Key and Secret Key (Access [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Our recent post, for example, SOA in Cardiac Arrest, Long Live Services and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), combined with many great blog posts I have read in the new year, has got me thinking about IT infrastructure services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a bit boring to discuss. However, Capability as a [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2009 by Tim Bass
Blogger Anne Thomas Manes, wrote this excellent post, SOA is Dead; Long Live Services. This post echos, in a slightly different theme my posts, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and also, What is SOA, Really…. A Sacred Omnipotent Acronym.
In the Amazon SQS post, I mentioned that it is possible that software companies selling SOA [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Tim Bass
Does Amazon SQS and other “messaging as a service” applications mean that companies can start to think about reducing their ongoing expenses of licensed or hosted messaging systems?
According to Amazon, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Paul Vincent posts The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing where he and his colleagues state that “essentially everyone” makes these assumptions when designing a distributed computing application.
Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Tim Bass
Having been around the block many times, I enjoyed reading about SOA sinking into trough of disillusionment.
Let me tell you what is SOA, really….
SOA, in hardware terms, is the concept that if you take a perfectly good running computer, life, including your precious ROI, will be better if you:
Share the motherboard as a service;
Share [...]
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