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What the healthcare.gov website debacle really tells us
An endless amount of ink (electrons?) have been spilled about the performance and availability problems healthcare.gov has experienced with the launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare....
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AWS Improves Reserved Instances
One of the biggest issues potential AWS users raise is its cost. AWS is convenient, they’ll admit, but renting by the hour can really add up. One way AWS addresses this issue is reserved instances...
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My Dinner with Joel (Mokyr)
I had the privilege of having dinner with Joel Mokyr yesterday evening. Joel is the real deal — an economic historian who is a Northwestern professor and is, perhaps, best known for his enlightening...
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AWS vs. CSPs: Hardware Infrastructure
AWS Data Center. From the New York Times. At the 2013 AWS Re:invent conference, the company put its data center guru, James Hamilton, on stage to discuss how AWS designs and operates its data center...
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AWS vs. CSPs: Software Infrastructure
In my last post I discussed Amazon Web Services’ approach to its hardware infrastructure, noting that Amazon appears to view its hardware infrastructure quite differently from other CSPs. In that post,...
View ArticleAWS Kinesis Introduction Tutorial
AWS has introduced a real-time event processing service called Kinesis. Amazon’s description of Kinesis: “A fully managed service for real-time processing of streaming data at massive scale.” Put...
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My Amazon 2013 Orders Analysis
One month’s worth of Amazon order boxes If you saw this post from July, you know that I track the number of orders we receive from Amazon. In July 2013, we received 20 shipments. In the post, I...
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The Second Machine Age and Cloud Computing
I’ve just finished the extremely interesting “The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies,” written by two MIT-affiliated academics, Erik Brynjolfsson...
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How Low Can Public Cloud Computing Prices Go?
Cloud Computing Prices: The Topic Du Jour QuotidiennementThe topic of cloud computing pricing is evergreen: controversy about how much public cloud computing really costs and whether on-premise cloud...
View ArticleThe Tradeoffs of Public and Private Cloud Computing
Dell invited me to record a video discussing the pros and cons of public and private cloud computing. It was a pretty interesting experience, as they used a professional crew and, as you can see if you...
View ArticleWhy Innovation Platforms Threaten Your Company — and You
The IT industry has talked about “platforms” for a long time. Today, there is a rise of a new twist on this concept, which I refer […]
View ArticleEdge Computing and the Death of Cloud: Nonsense
You don’t have to look very far to see pronouncements that cloud computing is giving way to the next big thing in computing: the edge. Venture […]
View ArticleAMG Q317 Cloud Financials Foretell Disruption
The big three cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, aka AMG) announced their Q3 numbers last week, and, as the saying goes, the box office was […]
View ArticleThe Amazon Flywheel, Prime, and “The Greatest Showman”
Most discussions of Amazon’s business end up referencing the Flywheel, as shown below: It depicts the self-reinforcing nature of Amazon’s business — great customer […]
View ArticleAMG Crush Their Q417 Cloud Numbers
The big three announced their quarterly results over the past few days. Last quarter I said, using movie lingo, that the numbers were boffo box office. […]
View ArticleAMG Crush Their Quarterly Numbers … Again. Boring!
There was a time in the mid-2000s that every quarter had an established ritual: Apple would announce its numbers, and they would be amazing: huge revenue […]
View ArticleAMG Earnings Q3 18: Time to Panic?
The big three cloud providers announced their earnings late last week, and they proved, depending upon your perspective, that public cloud computing continues on its path […]
View ArticleAMG Earnings Q3 19: The Future of the Tech Industry
Last week all three of the most important cloud providers (I refer to them collectively as AMG — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) announced their financial results. […]
View ArticleState of DevOps 2019 Report: Three Key Takeaways
Each year the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) Group publishes a “State of DevOps” report. Drawn on extensive surveys, the report describes the state of DevOps […]
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