NotesApache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, Jenkins, Spark, Aurora, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.FeedUnfurl
NotesCreates an ssh+git user that creates repositories on the fly and lets you run scripts or hit HTTP endpoints when you push code.
Build your own Heroku. Push code anywhere.
It's just not a post-receive hook. It's a powerful wrapper around pre-receive giving you easy access to the code that was pushed while still being able to send output back to the git user.Unfurl
Notes Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesRavello enables you to overcome your internal resource constraints and use the public cloud to develop and test your applications. Supercharge your development process!Unfurl
NotesIn queueing theory, the M/M/c queue is a multi-server queueing model.[1] In Kendall's notation it describes a system where arrivals form a single queue and are governed by a Poisson process, there are c servers and job service times are exponentially distributed.[2] It is a generalisation of the M/M/1 queue which considers only a single server. The model with infinitely many servers is the M/M/â queue.FeedUnfurl
Notes If you have used IMAP to connect an email client to an email server, then you already know the benefits that a personal cloud will provide to you. IMAP and SMTP create an email ecosystem where the user is in control. That's what personal clouds do for other applications.Unfurl
NotesIf you have used IMAP to connect an email client to an email server, then you already know the benefits that a personal cloud will provide to you. IMAP and SMTP create an email ecosystem where the user is in control. That's what personal clouds do for other applications.
If you have used IMAP to connect an email client to an email server, then you already know the benefits that a personal cloud will provide to you. IMAP and SMTP create an email ecosystem where the user is in control. That's what personal clouds do for other applications.Unfurl
NotesTreat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of courseâbut also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information weâve contributed.
No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one.
If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarterâs notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesBoth software developers and users should demand more. Developers should look for ways to reach their users unimpeded, through still-open platforms, or through pressure on the terms imposed by the closed ones. And users should be ready to try "off-roading" with the platforms that still allow itâhewing to the original spirit of the PC, perhaps amplified by systems that let apps have a trial run on a device without being given the keys to the kingdom. If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.Unfurl
Notes<blockquote>Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.</blockquote>
Total waste of paper, but still a really cute product idea despite that.Unfurl
NotesIn case it helps, I hereby declare the following iron law of âfreeâ internet services:
If youâre not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow.
This is an important corollary to the law âIf youâre not paying for something, youâre not a customer; youâre the product being soldâ.Unfurl
NotesThinking I might have to try this with the ASUS Transformer I have. "On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"The IMified platform makes it amazingly easy to connect your existing applications to instant messaging networks or create stand alone IM bots for fun or getting work done. "Unfurl
Notes"This weekÂend, I did someÂthing really cool (for me). I got to watch a March MadÂness game on my TV that CBS wasnât showÂing in my local marÂket on my TV, withÂout payÂing the cable comÂpany. Life is full of short vicÂtoÂries, and this is one of mine. More imporÂtantly, I realÂized Iâm livÂing in the heavÂenly jukeÂbox I used to talk about in my preÂsenÂtaÂtions years ago."FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesBeen there for years myself, welcome to the cloud. This is part of why I'm so awkward away from an internet connection. "Now, after a few years of this, I realize that when I look up from the screen I know almost nothing. And maybe that would be fine if the absent phone numbers and upcoming dates were freeing space for deeper and more introspective thought. But I sense that my addiction to the realtime stream is only making room for the consumption of a faster stream."Unfurl
Notes"The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of software on EC2 instances."FeedUnfurl
Notes"You use the same Google Merchant account that App Engine debits as the one that accepts donations. This way no bank account is involved. Then you track the money that goes into the account (using the Google Merchant IPN equivalent). Then you look at your usage stats from the App Engine panel and predicate future usage trends. Then calculate the cost per month. Then divide the cash in the account by that and you have how long the service will run. You make this visible on all pages (at the bottom, say) that this service will run for X months, "Pay now to keep it running." You accept any amount, but you are completely clear about what the costs are. And this is all automated."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon EC2 Instances currently cost $0.10 USD per hour to run plus bandwidth charges (which for standard web browsing will be negligent). This gives Amazon EC2 the potential to be an incredibly cheap on-demand proxy server. Finally you only pay for what you use rather than paying an extortionate monthly rate."Unfurl
Notes"Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain"Unfurl
NotesIf you're locked out of Twitter, try checking out this API method with HTTP Basic Auth using your Twitter credentials. It reports on limit, remaining hits to limit, and time until reset. I'm locked out, and it reports my remaining hits at 0 with about a 1/2-hour until counter reset.Unfurl
Notes"Donât blow anything into the Cloud that you donât have a personal copy of. ... Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a âsharingâ site that makes you push stuff in that you canât make copies out of or which you canât export stuff out of. Make fun of these people, and their shitty little Cloud Cities running on low-grade cooking fat and dreams. They will die and they will take your stuff into the hole. Donât let them. ... Are you paying for these services? No? You are a sucker. You are giving people stuff for free. ... These are parties. And parties are fun and parties and cool and you meet neat people at parties but parties are not a home."Unfurl
Notes"It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."Unfurl
Notes"Chrome is the end of the browser and the beginning of the Cloud Client. These are quite different things. A Cloud Client is a flexible and configurable Interface in which an application can run. Whether the rest of the application is local or lives in the cloud is an option - and switchable. The user may not even know nor care. It doesnât sound much like a browser does it?"Unfurl
Notes"I am in no way saying that AtomPub is the solution. What I am pointing out is that if you want federation then you need to design your protocols and APIs RESTfully. In this example it is hypertext, link following, in the AtomPub spec that allows these two separate services to be linked together."Unfurl
Notes"The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."Unfurl
Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's new monster GPU instances
Apache Mesos
Docker - the Linux container engine
Ravello Systems
IMAP as the Proto Personal Cloud
Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content â Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Yield Thought, I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
The Shifted Librarian » Living in My Cloud
Eucalyptus
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk