Archive for the 'cloud' Category

We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2

Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types – From The CEO’s Blog

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances

"Reinventing the Dialplan" slides from Twilio’s Astricon 2009 talk [asterisk in the cloud]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Company provides Virtual PBX – asterisk “in the cloud”, with HTTP/XML/REST API (business-level google voice)

Is Google Apps Premier Edition support effective? – Google Apps Help

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

thread on google support forums about ‘Google Application Premiere Edition’ customer and technical support, features and like

Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.

Yahoo!’s PNUTS Database: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right? | High Scalability

Friday, August 21st, 2009

writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.