Cloud Throw Down: Part 3 – Relational Databases and Instance Prices
Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Previous Throw Down… Now we’re going to throw down on something that I’ve had more than a few requests for. I’m going to break out and get some charts, graphs, and price differentials on AWS and Windows Azure. This throw down entry is going to be nothing but money, money, [...]
Cloud Throw Down: Part 2 – Deployments and Instance Options
Amazon Web Services Windows Azure Previous Throw Down… Ok, in this edition the fight gets graphic! Let’s jump right into the bout. (I’ve also been thinking about adding Rackspace or another cloud provider in the future.) Deploying .NET Web Application Code into AWS and Windows Azure is done in some distinctly different ways. There are [...]
Cloud Throw Down: Part 1 – Operating Systems & Languages
Amazon Web Services Windows Azure The clouds available from Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace and others have a few things in common. They’re all providing storage, APIs, and other bits around the premise of the cloud. They all also run on virtualized operating systems. This blog entry I’m going to focus on some key [...]
Webstock – Jane McGonigal – The Future of Reality
McGonigal is a game researcher at the institute for the future. Her ethos is that in game-design the human experience is perfectly optimized – we feel we have purpose, we feel we are collaborating and we feel we have a meaning. Why then are other aspects of our online (and for that mater offline) experience [...]
