Archive for the ‘cloud’ Category

Yottaa Looking for Head of Engineering

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Based in Boston and Beijing, yottaa is a stealth mode startup in the area of cloud computing. We are not saying too much about what we do in public yet, but we can say that you will enjoy the deep computer science as well as the plenty “lost in translation” ...

Build High Performance Web Apps

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Below are the slides for a recent techstars session: It covers some basic stuff for web performance, scalability and availability, such as: Common architecture pattern for horizontal scalability; How to do load balancing; Cost effective load balancing options; Cloud computing does not solve scalability issue; how to optimize web performance; A list of free tools available are ...

Cloud Providers and Locations

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Below is my list of cloud infrastructure providers and their data center locations (as of May 2009): Cloud Infrasturcture Providers US: Amazon EC2, RackSpace, GoGrid, SoftLayer, NewServers, ATT, Verizon, Sun Cloud; EU: FlexiScale, ElasticHosts, Amazon EC2, ATT, Verizon; Asia: ATT, Verizon(?), RackSpace(?), 21ViaNet' CloudEx(?); Further: RackSpace has data centers in US, Europe (London) and ...