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Most APIs are like hospital gowns. They seem to provide good coverage, until you turn around. I am talking about the dreadful state of fault reporting in remote APIs, from Twitter to Cloud interfaces...

Almost every definition of cloud, amongst the myriad definitions that exist, include the notion of multi-tenancy, a.k.a. the ability to isolate customer-specific traffic, data, and configuration of...

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you...

My partner in crime on the Overcast podcast, James Urquhart, published a nice blog post titled: Cloud computing and 'commodity'. Read the post and come back. I'll wait. Done? OK. James...

If you don’t know how scaling services work in a cloud environment you may not like the results One of the benefits of cloud computing, and in particular IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is that...

No, scalability may not be rocket science but it is computer science and not nearly as easy as it might appear In what might be considered an ironic statement, scalability in cloud computing...

Cloud computing is opening doors for traditional software companies in ways some people might not expect. Sometimes it’s not about how to transition on-premise software to software as a service (SaaS...

One of the frequent questions we get when we engage with customers moving applications to the cloud is: what about the latency issues when using a cloud?  This question arises because most IT...

Infrastructure can be a black box only if its knobs and buttons are accessible I spent hours at Interop last week listening to folks talk about “infrastructure.” It’s a hot topic, to be sure,...

The battle of the cloud frameworks has started, and it will look a lot like the battle of the application servers which played out over the last decade and a half. Cloud frameworks (which manage IT...