• ZooKeeper Futures -
• DojoCon - Cloud Security Panel, DojoCon - Cloud Security Panel dojosec on USTREAM. Conference - DojoCon - Cloud Security Panel
• Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences | FreshNetworks Blog - Twitter has quickly become the must-have channel for conference back-chat. Reading what other people tweet during a speech provides an extra dimension as you get a sense of what the audience is thinking. And just like passing notes in class, it’s also a lot more fun than simply sitting and listening. (and empowering – remember that Facebook interview from SXSW’08?)
• MongoDB in Three Minutes | Kyle Banker - Couple nights back, I was given three minutes to demonstrate MongoDB before a somewhat large group of people who’d never heard of it. Source code is on github. At one minute each, the highlights are these:
• Overheard: Cloud Computing - Learn It Or Lose - Information Management interview with me, Cloud Consultant

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud presentation at Devopsdays 09

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You’ve built up quite a bit of content blogging about the cloud at your site johnmwillis.com in just a short time.

I’ve been doing IT work for 30 years, including a lot with IBM Tivoli, but I’ve been focused on the cloud stuff for two years. I was lucky to meet some of the real pioneers in this space who gave me a kind of baptism, and since I’d been working with large corporations all my life, I completely got the idea. I started interviewing those same people when just a few of us were out there having this conversation.

Read the rest of the interview here….

• Erlang: The Movie - Brilliant…
• Brewer’s CAP Theorem - What doAmazon and the Sex Pistols have in common
• Premature Optimization - Premature optimization is the root of all evil

• Nabble - RabbitMQ - AMPQ vs XMPP and RabbitMQ vs ejabberd - Can anyone please explain the differences between AMPQ and XMPP.
  Are both addressing the same problems?
• 500 Internal Server Error - 500 Internal Server Error
• Mark Logic CEO Blog: Gartner Sued Over Magic Quadrant for Alleged Damages of $132M plus Punitives of $1.3B - ZL Technologies, a San Jose-based IT company specializing in … enterprise software solutions for e-mail and file archiving, is challenging Gartner Group and the legitimacy of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant.” In a complaint … ZL claims that Gartner’s use of their proprietary “Magic Quadrant” is misleading and favors large vendors with large sales and marketing budgets over smaller innovators such as ZL that have developed higher performing products.

• Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective - This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics.This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics.
• WebOps: Good prep for becoming a new parent? - I think I’ve said before somewhere that working in the field of web operations prepared me somewhat for being a parent. I thought the other day that I should write down some of this reasoning, because it’s pretty often that I’m reminded of similarities:
• Meanwhile: More Meta-Metrics - Like all sane web organizations, we gather metrics about our infrastructure and applications. As many metrics as we can, as often as we can. These metrics, given the right context, helps us figure out all sorts of things about our application, infrastructure, processes, and business.

• Amazon EC2 attack prompts customer support changes - A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) against Bitbucket.org, a popular Web site hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), will lead to significant changes in how AWS handles network monitoring and customer support.
• The Cambrian Cloud Computing Explosion - Devoxx09 - Devoxx - A complete survey of cloud computing starting with early IBM ideas, traveling through Google's implementation, Amazon's Web Services; continuing with the state of the industry as it stands in late 2009.
  We will also provide some insights and predictions for 2010, 2011, and beyond. This presentation cover the complete state of cloud computing and be useful for anyone working or planning to work in IT.
• The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems - Commodity computer systems contain more and more
  processor cores and exhibit increasingly diverse architectural
  tradeos, including memory hierarchies, interconnects,
  instruction sets and variants, and IO configurations.
  Previous high-performance computing systems
  have scaled in specific cases, but the dynamic nature of
  modern client and server workloads, coupled with the
  impossibility of statically optimizing an OS for all workloads
  and hardware variants pose serious challenges for
  operating system structures.
• Resin Web Server - Resin provides a fast standalone web server. In our benchmarks, it serves static pages faster than Apache! For many sites, the standalone web server is ideal because of its performance and because it is easier to configure and maintain than using a separate web server.
• How 30+ enterprises are using Hadoop | DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services - Big Data is Huge

Please help me spread the word on both conferences.  Also, if you are interested in volenteering for the Cloud Camp please contact me at botchagalupe at gmail dot com….

Thanks

John Willis

For more pictures in the “Old Country” set link here…