My thoughts on software development
ShareI recently read about the SELFMAN project on ReadWriteWeb (Coming Soon: Internet Apps that Heal Themselves). This project, started in 2006, aims to standardize and package the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale distributed applications. So far, they’ve produced some sample / reference applications using components written in Java. I don’t know if the bits themselves [...]
ShareCloud Computing has gained a lot of momentum this year. We’re hearing about more new platforms all the time, and all the big players are working hard to carve out a chunk of this space. Cloud computing originally promised us unlimited scalability at a lower cost than we could achieve ourselves, but I’m starting to [...]
ShareBack in February, amidst the news about Microsoft’s new Azure platform, I asked why the concept of Private Clouds seemed to be either dismissed or ignored as a viable Enterprise strategy (see also “PDC Reactions” and “Could Azure be self-hosted?“).
Yesterday, I learned that there’s hope, after all.
I happened to be in the office for one [...]
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One of the most impactful things I saw at CodeMash wasn’t on the schedule. I’d dropped in to check out Jeff Blankenburg’s presentation on Azure & Windows Live Mesh, but it was clear that the demo gods weren’t about to smile on Jeff that day.
The CodeMashers had sucked up the hotel’s WiFi bandwidth like it [...]
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In response to my Azure reaction, James Bender pointed out that Azure, in its current form, really wouldn’t make sense as a self-hosted platform. Rather than burying this point in a comment, I’m going to talk about it here, because this positioning (by Microsoft) is pivotal, and it’s crucial for Microsoft’s future.
First, I think James [...]
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