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• Cloud DevOps where is your voice?

  To be honest I am completely overwhelmed by the onslaught of technologies emerging as serious contenders for building the cloud generation of architectures and applications. On the one hand I am truly grateful that there are super-smart engineers building Read More... Posted 29 November 2010 11:59 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Engineering Practices, Cloud Computing, DevOps

• Managing future shock to find commercial advantage

  If I interpret the Wikipedia entry correctly, Moore’s law started as an observation that perhaps transitioned into a self fulfilling prophecy: “…[this law] is now used in the semiconductor industry to guide long-term planning and to set targets for research Read More... Posted 13 April 2010 16:35 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• Trendy brands still make mistakes. How many will be tolerated?

  Quite a day: Google Chrome/Gears bug could have allowed hackers to execute malicious code on the user’s system and the iPhone gets worms down under . Trendy brands can't escape the reality that building robust/secure software is not trivial. Will they Read More... Posted 09 November 2009 20:54 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• Agile infrastructure and how Cloud Computing can help Performance and Scalability

  In an ever more agile world with test driven development and emergent design, has cloud computing come along at a perfect time to solve some of the age old problems of performance and scalability management? Let’s first look at a couple of the classic Read More... Posted 17 August 2009 11:49 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, Engineering Practices, Cloud Computing

• Peculiar behaviour in PowerShell with dot sourcing and $LASTEXITCODE

  Here is a script called SimpleExit.ps1 Exit 99 And here it is in use: PS C:\temp> . .\SimpleExit.ps1 (Dot sourcing it so that variables in the script are made “global” ) PS C:\temp> $LASTEXITCODE 99 (You expected that – a variable set in the script Read More... Posted 07 August 2009 14:29 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• Will Amazon AWS be able to continue to compete?

  Early indications of Microsoft’s Azure pricing are out. As Simon Munro pointed out they seem an awful lot like Amazon’s AWS pricing and to some degree Google’s pricing . Perhaps people are already building Excel spreadsheets and AJAX apps to help model Read More... Posted 15 July 2009 11:02 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud Computing

• Megastructure Datacentres

  I suggested last year that National Geographic would probably not include Cloud Datacentres in their megastructures series. I am in Dublin just as MSFT launch their “ mega datacentre ”. Perhaps they should! Read More... Posted 01 July 2009 21:31 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• How cloud operating systems aren’t quite there yet

  Shrink yourself to the size of an ant and think of a classic server as a mini data centre. Banks upon banks of memory, multiple disks, many CPU cores and even network interfaces. The OS manages all of the many processes and threads, sharing the resources Read More... Posted 01 July 2009 20:25 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, Virtualisation, Cloud Computing

• Dilbert’s Scott Adams is on the trail of Device 0

  I read this post on Scott Adams’ blog today: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/your_phone/ It echoed my sentiments about the evolution of the mobile phone that I posted last year here: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamessaull/archive/2008/09/22/windows-mobile-and-cloud-computing-will-it-erode-laptop-and-books.aspx Read More... Posted 19 May 2009 19:30 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• Making sure each web server in the farm is serving the same content.

  When you have a web farm, monitoring can become a little bit more tricky. When you deploy a monitor  it is only monitoring the behaviour of the server chosen by the load balancer to respond. You need to create a monitor that is engaging each server Read More... Posted 15 December 2008 20:37 by James.Saull | 3 Comments Filed under: PowerShell