Monday, December 27, 2010

Solar Power - More panels and Nissan Leaf

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Solar City will triple our solar power output in February, and we just ordered a Leaf, which they say is deliverable in the April-July timef...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Translattice

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[There is some discussion of this posting with comments by Michael at Slashdot ] Michael Lyle @mplyle CTO of Translattice kindly provided ...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Riak

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Justin Sheehy @justinsheehy of Basho kindly provided a set of answers that I have interspersed with the questions below. The original set of...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

Are we ready for spotcloud yet?

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Launched today by Enomaly (@ruv) Spotcloud is a "Cloud Capacity Clearinghouse and Marketplace". There was a lot of discussion on ...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for MongoDB

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Roger Bodamer @rogerb from 10gen.com kindly provided a set of answers for MongoDB that I have interspersed with the questions below. The o...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

NoSQL Netflix Use Case Comparison for Cassandra

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Jonathan Ellis @spyced of Riptano kindly provided a set of answers that I have interspersed with the questions below. The original set of q...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Comparing NoSQL Availability Models

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let's risk feeding the CAP trolls, and try to get some insight into the differences between the many NoSQL contenders. I have circulate...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Netflix in the Cloud

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I'm presenting this talk on Thursday at the Cloud Computing Meetup, and again on Nov 3rd at QConSF. So far I have posted a "teaser...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Time for some climate action on 10/10/10

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organized by 350.org there are events all over the world. The significance of 350 is that it is the safe level of CO2 in the atmosphere. We...
Sunday, October 03, 2010

More solar power

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We just signed up for almost 8KW on the garage roof. It's justified based on replacing our propane furnace with a heat pump that also gi...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Solar Power - The Year in Review

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For our full story on solar click here . We installed Solar panels in August 2009, and they were turned on during September. We have now had...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Netflix for iPhone in the cloud and HTML5

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I posted on this subject a while ago , and generated a lot of confused comments, who read things into my post that weren't there. Today ...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Eventual Consistency of Cloud?

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Lori MacVittie wrote that eventually cloud standards will converge around the private cloud standards (RT @swardley). I disagree, and there ...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Reducing TCP retransmit timeout?

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Cloud networks are lossy and low latency, reducing TCP_RTO_MIN and TCP_DELACK_MIN looks like a good idea, but it looks as if this needs a li...
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Friday, August 06, 2010

Open letter to my Sun friends at Oracle

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I recently heard about Illumos via a tweet from Alec Muffett, and responded with my own tweet "I predict that #illumos will be just as ...
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