Cloud – It’s About Flexibility
While at OSCON in Portland recently, I took part in a panel alongside Rishidot Research founder and principal analyst Krishnan Subramanian and TechCrunch writer Alex Williams – the panel was an attempt to get some industry observers together to discuss the future of the cloud. Krish has written about the session here at Cloudave. In his post [...]
Can We Use DevOps And PaaS In The Same Sentence?
In spite of my post yesterday explaining the nuances behind the usage of the term NoOps, vendors with tools in Ops and DevOps space are taking the debate in binary terms. In spite of my efforts to highlight the fact that NoOps doesn’t mean Ops is going away, they are arguing that it conveys the [...]
Open Cloud Initiative Is Dead Long Live OCI
First let me make it clear that Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) is not dead and it is going to stay for a long time advocating openness. Also, I will fight all I can to keep it going. Having said that I am writing this post to re-emphasize something which I have been saying all along. [...]
Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News
Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News, which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories. HN and Techmeme are [...]
Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)
I lived in the UK for nearly a decade. I loved my experience there and wish I got back more often now. As a political junkie one of my favorite things to do was to watch Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). If you’ve never seen PMQ, it’s worth worth 2 minutes to watch this short video [...]
