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- Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month
- While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Why Twitter's failing
- Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...
- Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Back channel communications and blogging
- Last week a guy named Ben Rockwood, whom many of you will know as a key player at Joyent, published a personal blog harshly critical of Suns hardware and services delivery process. His title: Getting Fed Up With Sun: Cant Get Systems, Breaking...
- Tags: Sun, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Why open source works for Solaris
- Why open source works for SolarisBut nobody said they wereSo I don't grok ...(and, by the way, ZFS is running on MacOS X/Darwinwith variations in the "playing with" stage at least for a couple of other BSDs. )DTrace and ZFS are *not* user level appsFor user level applications (eg a...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Unix, Sun Solaris, Joyent, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-09
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- First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?
- Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- "Reliability is a management issue" [podcast]
- The Enterprise 2.0 conference currently being held in Boston reminds us that mission-critical web-based applications require high availability. Unfortunately, some enterprise 2.0 application vendors take development shortcuts resulting in poor reliability, which angers users and damages the developer's credibility. In this podcast, I speak with Rod Boothby,...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Podcasts, Cloud Computing, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Twitter turmoil: when does it end?
- The news that Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook and Lee Mighdoll, VP engineering have left should be no surprise. Let's be blunt. Despite the neutral language used in various posts, they were fired. One has to wonder whether Jack Dorsey is next, especially as he doesn't seem to understand the...
- Tags: Twitter, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Is Facebook a PaaS contender?
- Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Ever been Oprah'd?
- One of the measures of success for a tech website or blog is getting TechCrunched, Dugg or 'slashdotted' — the sudden surge of visitors that comes as a result of being highlighted by one of these big-traffic sites, often crashing the target site (it happened to one of...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Oprah Winfrey, Web Site, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- A plethora of PaaS options
- About that show of hands. I didn't expect my straw poll at last week's SaaS Summit would produce only two hesitant supporters for Salesforce.com's Force.com platform-as-a-service model out of a room full of two or three hundred ISVs. But this was a conference organized by specialist SaaS hoster OpSource, and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, OpSource, Application Infrastructure, Application Builder, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- SaaS and the global virtual stack
- When people argue that SaaS is just another deployment option for software, they really are missing the bigger picture. It's as hopeless as a carriage-builder in the early 20th century saying that using motors instead of horses is just another locomotion option for carriages. It ignores the wider revolution that's...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Stack, Enterprise, Service Aggregation, Application Composition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Gartner's top 10 predictions on IT futures
- Gartner researchers have identified 10 areas that IT professionals should pay attention to this year. Gartner: By 2011, Apple will double its U.S. and Western Europe unit market share in computers. Our take: Gartner correctly assesses that Apple's gains are a reflection of failure...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
- ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- SaaS integration without the lock-in
- After reading my post about Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration at the weekend, Zach Nelson of NetSuite wrote me an email to point out some of the downsides when integrating many different services in the way that Appirio has done:"How much would it cost to do what you described, and how...
- Tags: Ecosystems, Development, Integration, Mashups, NetSuite, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, XULRunner and Slingshot at Web 2.0 Expo
- With the buzz mounting over the past couple of weeks, I thought it would be a good time to talk about a panel Im hosting at the Web 2.0 Expo, going on April 15th to 18th in San Francisco. My panel is Rich Internet Application Platforms and weve got some...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apollo, Web 2.0 Expo, Slingshot, Joost, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Video: Corel's Wordperfect Lightning is a free, lightweight collaborative word processor
- Based on what I saw in the beta version released today of Corels new Wordperfect Lightning I have a video as well as a screen gallery, the freely downloadable lightweight collaborative word processor could be a harbinger of things to come as the productivity heavyweights look to find a sweetspot...
- Tags: Image Gallery, Video, Office 2.0, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Google Apps for Your Domain
- Google Apps for Your Domain is a suite of free hosted services for small businesses, at www.google.com/a. At the moment, the suite--it really should be called Google Office--is a bundle of existing Google products, loosely integrated by the way you manage them for your business and the fact that they...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Inc.
- Product reviews 2006-08-28
- Running a business on Web-based software
- Running a business on Web-based softwareThe web as your IT department!I think that mainly small businesses will lead the way in the adoption of Enterprise Web 2.0 type applications.They don't have big IT departments to build or maintain a traditional software infrastructure, so they'll benefit even more from web-based applications....
- Tags: Channel management, Groupware, Pillar, Web, Web 2.0, Pillar 1, big enterprise, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2006-04-15
- Running a business on Web-based software
- One premise of Enterprise Web 2.0 is that Web-based software is beginning to credibly encroach on many solution areas that traditional software previously addressed. According to proponents, this maturing method of online software delivery provides more usability, convenience, and value. The flexibility, mobility, and...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
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