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by ridruejo 15y ago
The fact that they had already gone through due diligence to get the 50MM funding probably helped. In any case, this is very straightforward, as long as the metrics were real, that is basically what they cared about the most.
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Using the standard/dominant solution is not a bad way of making a choice in a market that is still uncertain and not stable. When there is so much uncertainty, it is not about which cloud provider is going to give me more performance or cap
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Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing?(reuters.com)
2 points by ridruejo 15y ago|0 comments
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Your account was created 4h ago, so I really do not know if this response is for real or just trolling. The CloudStack offering was one of the few that got traction in the marketplace and had several high profile production deployments, inc
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Traditionally Apache projects have been seen by the bigger companies like IBM, HP as common ground and (with exceptions) well managed. It will be interesting to see if some of those companies building solutions on top of OpenStack shift the
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by ridruejo 15y ago
I am not sure the standards mentioned help make the apps more reliable, cheaper, easier to develop, at least in the traditional "higher level of the stack". Most people associate offerings like Heroku to those qualities (and they build on t
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by ridruejo 15y ago
There are room for other solutions, my point is that they are going to be marginal at best if the only differentiation factor is that they support more standards.
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by ridruejo 15y ago
A de facto standard is still a standard. Windows was the de facto standard in desktop OS in the 90s and there was plenty of room for technical improvements. But because it became standard and the network effects kicked in, there was little
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by ridruejo 15y ago
You can do the same with Eucalyptus http://www.eucalyptus.com
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Linux did not supplant Windows by copying it, but it did supplant proprietary Unix. Most (not all) really successful infrastructure open source projects tend to be implementations of standards (MySQL/SQL, Apache/HTTP, Bind/DNS, etc.) In thi
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DjangoStack 1.4(bitnami.org)
1 points by ridruejo 15y ago|0 comments
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by ridruejo 15y ago
This is of course not as sophisticated as exiting PaaS solutions but together with SWF, Cloud Formation, etc. Amazon keeps delivering all the pieces necessary to build one. This greatly benefits customers (and further ties them to the platf
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by ridruejo 15y ago
It is probably not much the hardware itself as the concept. Everybody can figure out how to use a tablet, the app store, etc. but not everybody can figure out how to use Windows or Ubuntu or OS X. We are close to the point in which everythi
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by ridruejo 15y ago
More comments on that regard http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3706753
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Why not point directly to the original article? http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-s...
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by ridruejo 15y ago
At some point Stack Overflow may turn 'evil' but I personally have received a lot of value out of the site and I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt that will be able to come up with a business model that will not alienate users
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Yep, your analysis is spot on. Good article
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Yes and no. There is a risk on building your business or app on somebody else's platform, but there is also risk in investing your time and resources on trying to recreate the same stuff (and be stuck maintaining it) rather than on your tru
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Lightsquared, some comments(brontecapital.blogspot.com)
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Update: they are already there. Working now on the Amazon Machine Images
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by ridruejo 15y ago
These are self-contained packages, include their own pre-configured copies of Apache, MySQL, etc. As far as I understand virtualenv only applies to Python + related packages, not other dependencies. But I agree that for many setups, virtua
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by ridruejo 15y ago
For those of you wanting to quickly check it out without interfering with your existing setup, we are working on an installer and VM image for Django 1.4 and will post it shortly on http://bitnami.org/stack/djangostack
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Simple code reviews with Review Board installer(blog.bitnami.org)
2 points by ridruejo 15y ago|0 comments
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by ridruejo 15y ago
We have thousands of users who run their servers on Amazon using one of our AMIs ( http://bitnami.org ) Whether EC2 is more or less expensive than the alternatives is a complex topic highly dependent on your particular requirements. Having
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by ridruejo 15y ago
If I read it correctly, the server can fail but because the data is stored via iSCSI, it will not actually be lost (unless it is the appliance itself that fails)
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by ridruejo 15y ago
More details at Werner's post http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/The-AWS-Storage-...
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Well, the article reminds me of the "Webcam" short film. It is not so much about covert NSA agents taking over your computer as targeted malware... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i841CamEX3o
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Yeah. Is this the monetization strategy for Quora? Somehow it feels like the people who turn the Wikipedia articles into PDF and sell them on Amazon. At least in this case they mention in the article clearly where it comes from, but it stil
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by ridruejo 15y ago
Cassandra is a great project, as it is Hadoop, MySQL, etc. The issue I am raising is that it is not so much which project is better on a feature basis, but the fact that Amazon is able to offer it as a service, in a scalable way that no oth
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by ridruejo 15y ago
No. They offer the equivalent of Amazon S3, SimpleDB and SQS, but nothing comparable to this

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