All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2009
Flexibility is a key advantage of using Amazon Web Services; you can obtain resources instantaneously without the headache of owning them. If you no longer need the resource, you release it and only pay for what you have used. This is a very powerful model that has helped many of our customers drive capital expense out of their IT operation.
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 23, 2009
As you may remember, secondary education for web development and design is something that interests me greatly. I’ve mentioned before that the curriculum taught in most colleges tends to be dated and in need of definite help. Opera published their Web Standards Curriculum , and that was a great step in the right direction, but The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has taken it to an all new level with their recently launched InterAct Curriculum.
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The Agile Manager
MARCH 16, 2009
The last piece of the Agile PMO puzzle is to make the data needs of the PMO non-burdensome to delivery teams. It’s all well and good to be able to get quality and performance data, but it has to be easily accessible. If it isn't, we're just taxing the teams that much more. That means we won't get this data timely or efficiently, if at all. Automating Metrics Capture Because they're derived directly from the asset under development, our metrics give us an objective way to index and monitor qualit
All Things Distributed
MARCH 25, 2009
Keeping your database simple and fast is often difficult if you use higher level frameworks such as ActiveRecords in Ruby or Java object persistence technologies such as Hibernate. There is a lot of magic that is happening out of sight that you have no control over. If you then have to scale your application it is often the relational database that these technologies require that becomes the performance and scaling bottleneck.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 2, 2009
Today we have some important news for our Amazon EC2 customers who are running Windows Server and Windows SQLServer instances and who have been looking to extend their coverage for fault-tolerance and locality reasons. Starting today Windows instances can be launched in an additional Availability Zone is the US and they can also be launched in two Availability Zones in Europe.
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 19, 2009
One of the highlights of SXSW this year for me personally, was being able to see a panel with Andy Budd of Clearleft , a person and company for whom I have the utmost respect. The panel was about usability testing and the tools you can use to better know your users, but one of the major takeaways I got had more to do with how to approach your job in general.
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 5, 2009
Last year I attended SXSW for the first time. I had said that I would try to recap the conference, but never really did that. Best laid plans of mice and men and all that. I haven’t really attended any other major conferences, so I don’t have much to compare it with, but the experience was fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that thanks to the generosity of my employer and a little good luck, I am going to be attending again this year.
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