Service Oriented Architecture vs. Dunbar's Number

Sun, 19 Oct 2014 13:14:51 -0400

I’ve got a bit of a problem in that I spend most of my career working in engineering space, but most of my thought capital is spent on larger problems of organizational design, technical strategy, laying down foundations today for problems we’re going to need to solve in a year or more. This frustrates my bosses to no end, who just want me to build a server or swap a bad hard drive out or any other of a number of mundane day to day sysadmin tasks. I’m left without much of an outlet for this stuff besides meetup groups and, when I find the time, blogging. Thanks for humoring me.

Thoughts On Utility Computing

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:13:56 -0400

I see many different approaches that organizations take to cloud computing, ranging from running an ESXi cluster in-house to running everything on Amazon EC2, and others still running a more modern cloud stack on in-house hardware.

With all of this buzz around “utility computing”, I wonder how many of you have considered the paradigm of the electricity utility.

The public cloud offerings seem to me to evoke the electric utility equivalent of a peaking power plant. This is a great way to be nimble and add additional capacity to your power grid when you need it the most, but it’s not very cost-effective for shouldering the full burden of your grid.

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Service Oriented Architecture vs. Dunbar's Number

Thoughts On Utility Computing