ReBlog: On Why I Don’t Like Auto-Scaling in the Cloud

George Reese posted the following on the O'Reilly Blog "I enter into sales meetings getting clients excited about dynamic scaling…

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Weny

Weny is a link shortner that is used to associate links with your twitter id. Links remain associated with you…

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Kickfire: Data Analytics for the Masses

You may not realize it, but the data analytics market is buzzing. There are new vendors emerging, new products popping…

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What is Hadoop?

Image via CrunchBase Ok so you are setting out to build the next Google and are considering using a Map/Reduce…

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Why PC’s still suck

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday afternoon I was showing my son some funny songs he liked on YouTube. The last one…

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SSD and DB usage

Image via Wikipedia Recently I have seen several articles about Solid State Drives (SSD) and some articles are picking 2009…

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Australian National Broadband Roll Out

As data analytics transforms modern business operations, acquiring an established company has become an increasingly strategic move for growth-focused entrepreneurs.…

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My definition of a Cloud service

Image by akakumo via Flickr There has been some debate on a few sites the last couple of days about…

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Twitter @ddata Discuss Data bot

Image via CrunchBase If you use twitter then this may be interesting, I have launched a twitter based “Discuss Data”…

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Is love for Twitter blind?

Image via CrunchBase Oh Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. In almost every respect Twitter has been a perfect example of how not…

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