Sorry for the word play, but I’m about to drop some nerd up in here. There is some FUD being spread by people who either don’t understand the real advantages of Amazons cloudfront, or have a vested interest in spreading fear. One conversation that caught my attention for was in the comments section of an [...]
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So the big news of the night is that Amazon has released ‘CloudFront’ their S3 based CDN that competes really agressivly with exisitng players (Akamai…etc)
Having worked with… less enlightened solutions… I’m thinking the ultimate CloudFront deployment scenario would be via an SVN or GIT hook. If you commit an asset to /static/css or /static/css a [...]
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Courtesy of news.com
Sun has announced it is partnering with Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service to offer (Open)Solaris on EC2 instances… I wonder if this will pave the way for BSD (Free, Open) derivatives to be officially supported by Amazon…
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HA! The google team have answered a lingering question about data portability. I’ve been vocal about my reservations with the GAE platform. The fact that people have ported the GAE python framework didn’t really mitigate my concerns. All code is throw away code anyway, the data is what is where the value is.
These two announcements [...]
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Werner Vogels, CTO of amazon has just written about Amazon’s latest feature addition: persistent storage for amazon ec2 — This recent announcement come a few weeks after Amazon announced static IP’s (Elastic IP’s) and Availability Zones — or the ability to specify the location of an instance on creation.
Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will [...]
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I’ve just started to start playing around with Google App Engines, and almost immediately I’ve ran into an annoyance.
If you want to host your app engine on it’s own vanity domain (myapp.com) you must have your google apps account registered exactly on that domain, you can host engines w/different domains than your main google apps [...]
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Update: It’s very clear to me that the Google App Engine is modeled after Django… See below
Huge win for Django! It will be interesting to see how this plays out on one hand you have heroku the all in one IDE/Enviroment for Ruby On Rails that is backed by Amazon AWS and auto-deploys for [...]
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I’ve used VMWare server, VMWare Workstation, and VMWare fusion (Mac OS X desktop client). Recently I’ve been thinking about creating my own VMWare appliance as a development environment for a project.
After some initial research I realized there was nothing special about so called “Appliances” they are just like the VMWare instances I was already used [...]
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Amazon has finally launched two features that have prevented its EC2 service from really taking on conventional web hosts: Static IPs (aka Elastic IPs) and “Availability Zones.”
The “Elastic IPs” come with a little “Amazon special sauce” and can be re-assigned to your EC2 instances programatically on the fly. There are some initial limits, currently you [...]
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Desktop Linux is reporting Ubuntu will deploy the commercial virtualization product by parallels, “parallels workstation” to its apt repositories allowing for easy installs…
Ok, this comes not long after my gripes about desktop virtualization on linux. This won’t fix it either. The problem is not that parallels is hard to install — it’s really not (dpkg [...]
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So with my rant against desktop virtualization on linux in mind, I decided that perhaps my gripes were really with VMware and to give parallels a try. So I signup, request a trial key and go to download the product… and I’m met with a server error, or broken link FOR THE LAST 12 hours
Is [...]
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Desktop Virtualization on Linux sucks, especially compared to the options available to Mac OS X users who have both Parallels and VMWare fusion.
VMWare Desktop is slow, even on my q6600 quad core with 4gigs of ram. The integration blows, it’s only good for syncing my ipod at best. iTunes will play sound just fine, but [...]
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Last week I started writing the introductory article: “VMWare running native XP on SATA disk” — I promised to have the follow up the next day. It has been more than week. What can I say, busy week at work.
We left of having configuring the Windows side of the equation, having set up a separate [...]
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There have been a few attempts at documenting the process of running a windows install directly from the hard disk via VMWare running on a GNU/Linux host. The most publicized attempt was made “digg famous” here: Running a Windows Partition in VWware — they all fall flat in various ways. The previous example could [...]
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The Free Software Magazine has an excellent article by Rami Rosen on Virtualization in OpenSolaris
An interesting thing to note is that Solaris Zones were created in response to FreeBSD jails — which allow light weight virtualization of the FreeBSD host system.
What isn’t mentioned is that Solaris (proprietray) recently announced the capability to fully virtualize linux [...]
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