SoCal CTO
JUNE 14, 2008
Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps. This trend of social pervasiveness will continue.
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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
free weekly Infochachkie articles! By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
In a recent Forbes.com article , contributor Tara Brown wrote of her own misapprehension moving from San Francisco to Southern California, saying, “I’m a technologist and moving away from the tech hub of the world to the land of Botox seemed like a really bad career move. But what Silicon Valley doesn’t know could hurt them.
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