William Jimenez's Blog

When Amazon Web Services Don’t Cut the Bill

William Jimenez — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:19:13 +0000

Quite literally actually. Amazon has an amazing compute platform that is by far the most advanced in the industry. The idea to bring computing resources to the application in an object orientated, programmatic interface is a real game changer in how people build (and run) production applications. It seems to be that when AWS first started to [...]

Info-graphic: AppDynamics Customer Survey

William Jimenez — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:58:13 +0000

Source: www.AppDynamics.com

Vyatta Routing Platform

William Jimenez — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:30:56 +0000

Been experimenting with Vyatta lately. So far the results have been good overall. There are a lot of issues that I have faced with Vyatta, but the potential for it becoming a powerful contender in the enterprise routing space are promising. Pros: Powerful features – Everything from BGP to active/active HA Debian user-land – Familiar command interface speeds [...]

Productivity Orientated Linux Tools

William Jimenez — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:11:19 +0000

Perhaps not the most productive, but certianly a lot of fun : :~$ apt-get install cowsay :~$ man cowsay: NAME cowsay/cowthink – configurable speaking/thinking cow (and a bit more) SYNOPSIS cowsay [-e eye_string] [-f cowfile] [-h] [-l] [-n] [-T tongue_string] [-W column] [-bdgpstwy] DESCRIPTION Cowsay generates an ASCII picture of a cow saying something provided [...]

View of SF from the Water

William Jimenez — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:41:28 +0000

This is a shot from the water on a small cruise rig of San Francisco, specifically in view is Ghirardell Square. This was an event that AppDynmics Inc held for it’s global partners, and it was a fun event to be a part of.

Zynga’s Infrastructure: A blend of private and public clouds

William Jimenez — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:55:59 +0000

If anyone has proven that socially charged gaming is a viral commodity, Zynga has. And at 215+ Million users, Zynga's infrastructure has to be rock solid to keep up. The company's culture centers around play and recreation; but after doing some research on their infrastructure, delivering massive amounts of content reliably and with flexible scale is some serious business.

My Zerply Profile

William Jimenez — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:28:05 +0000

Check out my Zerply profile! : zerp.ly/wjimenez5271

Google Ventures

William Jimenez — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:44:51 +0000

Stumbled upon a site (not using a popular social bookmarking service ) today about Google’s VC arm. My first thought was, ‘wow that’s full circle for investing in startups.’ It makes sense though, Google has some unique insight into where the market is going and what the hot companies are today. Their search data alone [...]

Clever system downtime page

William Jimenez — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:24:50 +0000

Mint.com (Intuit) has always had a pretty straightforward and conservative customer image, natural for a company dealing with your finances. Today they are showing a little humor as I noticed in their scheduled downtime page.

Elastic Beanstalk? It’s not a fairytale, Amazon disruptes the market once again

William Jimenez — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:01:10 +0000

Amazon.com is easy to label as the 500 pound gorilla in the market of cloud computing services–and rightly so. They are one of the pioneers in innovative service oriented technologies, and have a strong hold on the market. They definitely have not become complacent in their standing however, and their newest technology dubed “Elastic Beanstalk” is good evidence. I really can’t [...]