Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, explains how web applications will be built in the future. His point is twofold. The bad news is that expectations for good web applications are sky high. It has to have rich media, available on multiple devices, very scalable, social networking and that is just the beginning. The good news […]
#tnw This year’s edition of the next web feels a bit like coming home again. The atmosphere is vibrant with energy to discover and develop new cool technology. If anything, there is a healthy disregard for convention and ‘the way things are supposed to be’. No boring windowless conference rooms here, the organizers have a […]
This coming week I’ll spend quite a bit of time at The Next Web Conference. Tweeters: follow #tnwArguably, this is as close to Silicon Valley level energy as you can get in Europe. I’ll be blogging and tweeting (@petersgriddle) a bit as time permits. My personal focus is on things quantifiable and cloudness, so if […]
At the 35th annual international meeting of the Computer Measurement Group (see link), I presented our measurements of the cloud. Bits of an earlier analysis were posted on petersgriddle over a year ago (see cloud tag). This presentation is now available with audio and Q&A on slideshare (follow link). I was rather pleased with the […]
If you want to know what’s cooking on the net, you will at times have to process a lot of measurements. Examples are logs of webservers, and measurements of network activity. You need this ‘network business intelligence’ in order to figure out what the users are doing, where the capacity is going, where the delays […]
At the 35th annual international meeting of the Computer Measurement Group (see link), a group of professionals dedicated to performance management and capacity planning, the hot topics were (surprise!) virtualization and clouds. We were presented with stories of companies with hundreds and even thousands of servers. Some of these have utilizations as low as 7%. […]
At the recent Supernova conference (link), thought leaders discussed the network age, and what happens when “control moves to the edge”. But does it move to the edge? At Supernova, Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain dissected the ‘computing cloud”. His ‘tale of three clouds’ presents a critical view of these ephemeral structures. The most […]
This week at the SuperNova conference (link) an impressive set of business and technology leaders meets in what organizer Kevin Warbach calls: the executive forum for the network age. What new opportunities and threats appear with new network technology? Technology allows new good things to happen, like online video sharing. It also allows misuse of […]
Operations versus development. In a lot of IT organisations these could not be more divided. I have written about that elsewhere (in Dutch though). Operations typically considers every change request as a disruption. Change are the root cause of most problems and outages. A friend of mine sent me a presentation, from Velocity 09. This describes […]
Google executives recently claimed that YouTube users submit 13-15 hours of video material every minute. Downloads are ten times that. Although these numbers are impressive, they translate into an average viewer population of 90.000. The Super Bowl typically attracts close to 100 million viewers. American Tv networks measure their audience by the million. Popular programs […]