Thursday, August 05, 2010

Running Netflix in the (public #aws) cloud

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my talk at #qconsf in Nov http://qconsf.com/sf2010/presentation/Running+Netflix+in+the+Cloud
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Can OpenStack catch up with AWS? Looks unlikely to me.

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There has been a lot of chatter about the new OpenStack standard in the last few days, and how it could become a third option in the cloud ...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

iPhone Tethering Review

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Along with iOS4 and the new ATT data plans they now also support tethering. I setup my wife’s personal iPhone 3GS for tethering, and it work...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Netflix in the cloud and HTML5

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One of the fun things about working at Netflix is that we are always "leaning forward" and looking for new technologies to leverag...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Garage Structure Completed

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After lots of stops and starts, all that is left to do is some exterior paint and to fit the main doors. Work has already started on the ele...
Thursday, May 06, 2010

Cloud Architect

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my role at Netflix just changed, from managing development of personalization in the cloud, to over-all cloud architect for Netflix. New cha...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

AT&T 3G Microcell doesn't support corporate account phones

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I just got an ATT 3G Microcell for home, since our service is intermittent, sometimes so bad I can't send an SMS message successfully (a...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Hiring a cloud platform engineer at Netflix

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If you are interested in the CAP theorem NoSQL systems like Voldemort, Cassandra and SimpleDB, scalability and expect to be at the Veloci...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Garage Trusses Video

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On Tuesday a big truck had some difficulty delivering a 40ft trailer containing the roof framing trusses, but it was raining so that is all ...
Monday, April 19, 2010

garage - roof and rain on Tuesday

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the roof trusses will be delivered tomorrow and rain is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday - so we will see how they deal with that... it su...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Garage Framing Walkaround

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The walls are up, but the trusses for the roof aren't ready, so it will be finished off next week. Luckily the weather looks good for th...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Garage Framing - first day of construction

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Tuffshed turned up with their pre-built sections, assembled them and added some siding and the main door frame. Another stop-motion video on...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Experiences using an iPad as my primary work laptop

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I spent the last week carrying my iPad with me to meetings and using it as my main system at home an in my cube. My laptop was used for a fe...
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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Garage - Pouring and Finishing the Foundation

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Last Friday we poured concrete, and then it poured rain. Here's a stop-motion video of the work. Six concrete trucks came, we are high o...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

IPad makes it hard to embed YouTube in blog

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I'm trying to compose a blog post that embeds a YouTube video, but YouTube doesn't want to give me the HTML fragment to embed the vi...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Garage - Inspected and delayed

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We passed inspection by the county this morning, but the weather has turned too bad to pour concrete tomorrow, so we are postponing until af...

My CMG paper on Crunching Data In the Cloud is published in MeasureIT

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The slides are also available at http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/crunch-your-data-in-the-cloud-with-elastic-map-reduce-amazon-emr-hadoop ...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Garage - Working on Saturday

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The concrete team were back today, putting in more rebar and tidying everything up. Chris Ramoutar the Electrician was also here putting in ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Garage Site - rebar ready

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Another stop motion video at 30s intervals shows most of the day's work. The tree that was falling over was pushed back the other way an...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Garage Site - digging the foundations

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Today the new leach-field pipe was inspected, and the foundations were dug, I did a stop-motion video using iStopMotion on an old MacOS lapt...