For my dutch readers: the dutch chapter of the Computer Measurement Group starts formally with a meeting on August 26, 2010. The meeting location will be central in the Netherlands, but still has to be decided. The meeting will run from 16:00 until 19:00, with a number of short presentations and a brief business meeting. […]
This article, a follow up on an earlier blogpost, gives a more detailed look at the location of the Amazon CloudFront service. This location is derived from the time it takes to connect to it from a number of locations. The summary is that CloudFront is on the average about 40-50 milliseconds away from a random […]
We are running out of IPv4 Internet addresses, but who is using them all up? The IP address space usage per capita differs greatly between nations, which points to a digital divide. If we would distribute IPv4 addresses uniformly over the world population, there would be less than 1 address per person. In fact, on […]
Here is my submission for âTaking the drama out of cloud computingâ. See the full series at http://vimeo.com/11686637 Clouds are disruptive! Whoever thinks otherwise, and considers cloud computing to be a mere fad invented by marketing departments, without any substance, is in a severe state of denial! Cloud computing is real, and it is growing. […]
In an entertaining series of short videos, Novell’s Marketing department has taken blogposts by various bloggers and transformed them in a cafĂ© style poetry reading. Style and substance merge as a solid point on cloud computing is made in a minute or two.Is it surreal, is it a pastiche? See the channel on vimeo Now let’s […]
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 yearâs 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 âthe way things are supposed to beâ. No boring windowless conference rooms here, the organizers have a […]
I am through with IPv6. By now all my websites (that I know off) are dual stack with native, untunneled IPv6. Thanks to Xs4all.nl and AVM.de (the FritzBox guys) I have native IPv6 in my home office. Setup was a breeze. On http://test-ipv6.com/ my connection scores 10/10 for IPv6 readiness. I have had a lot to do […]
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 […]
Google App Engine Blog: App Engine joins the Google over IPv6 Program Again promising progress in the IPv6 arena. For you developers out there, this is an opportunity as well as a wake-up call. Be prepared to handle IPv6 traffic.