Archive for the 'cloudcomputing' Category

By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)

By the numbers: How Google Compute Engine stacks up to Amazon EC2 — Tech News and Analysis

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

some interesting piece of data comparing AWS and GCE (google compute engine, i.e IAAS offering from google)

Linode hack – Pastebin.com

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Linode VM hosting service was hacked. ~3000 Bitcoins were stolen

Linode hack – Pastebin.com

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Linode VM hosting service was hacked. ~3000 Bitcoins were stolen

Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Postmortem for the April-2011 EC2/EBS outage. It looks like a human errors plus unfortunate cascade of events lead to a requests storm that brought down EBS storage. Also, it appears that Amazon mis-estimated spare storage capacity needed for recov…

[slideshare] Netflix in the cloud 2011 – Adrian Cockcorft

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Notes from netflix tech blog about some key points of their EC2-based infrastructure design. Note that netflix is not affected by the current EBS problems in AWS US-EAST region. Their key point seems to be to equally split your infrastructure betw…

Who is affected by EC2? – EC2Disabled.com [by Amazon AWS outage of 21 April 2011]

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

The subj. looks really bad!

AWS is down: Why the sky is falling – justinsb’s posterous

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

A blog post explaining nature of the current Amazon AWS outage. The deal is that several so-called availability zones (AZ) failed simultaneously in amazon US-EAST region, even though amazon’s FAQ describe such event to be unlikely. Many interestin…

We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

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