Kitchen Soap

Dear users of S3, EC2, and other ‘utility’ computing stuffs:
Here’s a crude and completely oversimplified evolution of infrastructure needs of a growing website, with an assumption:

Have you ‘outgrown’ your original use of utility computing, for whatever reason ? If so, what was the reason? Financial? Technical?
Why I’m asking:
I’m in the process of writing a [...]

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I’m probably late in getting to this, but seeing the article in the WSJ about the RAD project made me stop to take a look. It appears to be a collection of different projects, all relating to infrastructure deployment/management and various research topics surrounding it. Looks cool so far.

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I’m probably very late to this party, but I just discovered Dashboard Spy. Given the amount of “data porn” that folks in webops look at on a daily basis, this sort of stuff is pretty damn interesting.
I’m especially loving the current trend of developing ‘business’ dashboards, since it can fit in quite nicely with infrastructure [...]

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