If you missed the AWS S3 versioning webcast, I have a copy of the video here. And here are the highlights.. You can enable and disable this at the bucket level They don’t think there is a performance penalty of turning versioning (but it was kind of obvious S3 would be doing slightly extra work [...]

Windows Azure is an application platform provided by Microsoft to allow others to run applications on Microsoft’s “cloud” infrastructure. Its finally open for business (as of Feb 1, 2010). Below are some links about Azure for those who are still catching up. Wikipedia: Windows Azure has three core components: Compute, Storage and Fabric. As the [...]

While “private clouds may not be the future” they are definitely needed today. Here are some of the top issues bothering some organizations which have been thinking about going into the cloud. Some of issues were based on Craig Bolding’s talk on “Guide to cloud security”. Unlike your own data center, you will never know [...]

If you haven’t seen these links before.. you should check this page first “Talks and slides from web architects“. But if you have already seen that page… here are the updates from last week.   PDF Case for Shared Nothing   PDF The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems     Building Highly Scalable [...]

For latest set of links go here. This is a collection of various slides, pdfs and videos about designing scalable websites I collected time. If you have something interesting which might go in here, please let me know. Date Type Title 6/23/2007 Blog Getting Started with Drupal 6/23/2007 Blog 4 Problems with Drupal 6/23/2007 Video [...]