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Self-Managing distributed applications

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 [...]

2.Ohio was Great!

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Thanks to Ben Blanquera and Angela Siefer for putting on a terrific event tonight.  Reid Hoffman and Judy Estrin had some really insightful thoughts on innovation and networking, and Michael Nelson walked us through the effect of government policies on IT.  Craig Newmark also dropped by to add to the celebrity guest list.

As a technology [...]

Twitter: Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory

It’s rare these days that a Web 2.0 startup lands a round of financing, and the funding is completely overshadowed with bad news.  Twitter isn’t just shooting itself in the foot – it’s mowing itself down with a chain gun.

Problem #1 is uptime, or lack thereof.  Anyone who’s been on Twitter over the last month or so has experienced a *severe* up-again, down-again roller coaster ride at Twitter.  Every day, it seems like there’s an outage, and some of them have lasted for hours. 

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