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On Robustness And Resiliency - Part 1

On Robustness And Resiliency – Part 1

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 25, 2013

When you talk about cloud computing with the enterprises and tell them how cloud requires a different approach to designing applications, I get the biggest pushback from them. Since most of the large enterprises are used to the idea that expensive and powerful hardware that seldom fails is the only way to build robustness into […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, design for failure, DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS, RESILIENCE, ROBUSTNESS, sla

Two Events That "Clouded" Our Thinking In 2011

Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 3, 2012

2011 is long gone and I should have done this post last week. However, I still think it is relevant to highlight some changes in our thinking about the cloud that happened due to events in 2011. Whether many agree with me or not, I see 2011 as a year where cloud computing moved from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, aws, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, design for failure, electricity model, iaas, insights, paas, VM | 6 Responses

Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

Cloud Outages: Design For Failure Or Enterprise Clouds?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 9, 2011

Last weekend saw Lightning taking out datacenters associated with Amazon Cloud and Microsoft BPOS. It affected one Availability Zone (AZ) in AWS Europe. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge has detailed information on the incident. Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing an explosion and fire that knocked out utility […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, cloud outage, design for failure, disaster recovery, DR, dublin, microsoft, outage, sla | 5 Responses

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 26, 2011

The AWS outage from last week brought the idea of “design for failure” into focus in many of the discussions around the cloud world. Looking back at the outage, it is pretty clear that only those apps that were designed for failure withstood the outage and the rest, especially the ones without even a DR […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, aws outage, best practices, cloud computing, design for failure, DR, insights, redundancy

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