Demystifying Clouds

11 Feb 2008

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It's too easy to overcompensate to the hyping of a technology by dismissing it entirely.  I wasn't nearly that far along, but I was getting a bit jaded.  Thankfully Lisa (linked to pressure her into posting...) passed along Demystifying Clouds, which is a pretty hype-free discussion of these early stages.

At SynthaSite, we had a good call with Rightscale to hear more about their latest updates, which look pretty useful.  There are a few things we'd need to change to be in a position to use them in particular, but when that's no longer a factor, it will be quite a compelling offer.  I've got a few projects rattling around my head that lend themselves to this sort of thing, so I imagine I'll be trying them out in a personal capacity soon anyway.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

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