
PDX Cloud – A Question Posed.
I attended the PDX Cloud meeting to present, but more to ask a question. Here’s how I posed that question (slide deck at the bottom of this blog entry). I frame the scenario of the distributed development world of cloud computing, dive into the vertical world of enterprise dev and then throw down the big […]

Junction Two Weeks on Bi-weekly Review : Issue #002
It’s time for another Bi-weekly Review! We’ve been making some progress and so far we’ve tackled a few elements of the project. The first big task was to get more information out there for the community & team working on the project. I’ve spent some time along with the contributors on github and via other […]

Junction Two Weeks on Tuesday Bi-weekly Review : Issue #001
So every two weeks I intend to provide an update for the Junction Project. Who might have joined, what was worked on, where we are and generally any other bits of news related to the project. This is the first “Junction Two Weeks on Tuesday Review” so enjoy! 🙂 Two weeks ago today I wrote […]

Riak Development Guidance: The “Client Round Robin Anti-Pattern”
One of the features that is often available in Riak Client software (including the CorrguatedIron .NET Client, the riak-js client and others) is the ability to send requests to the Riak Cluster through a round robin style approach. What this means is each IP, of each node within the Riak Cluster is entered into a […]

Skype Downtime And The Cloud Fail
Skype went down this morning and, as expected, Techmeme and Twitter are already going crazy with the news about downtime. There were speculations about problems with their centralized infrastructure used to authenticate users (which was a cause of trouble in one of the past outages) and some were even talking about “The Cloud Fail”. Whether […]