Cloud Computing
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Cloud Power Up
Tl;dr: The clouds should use their powers to help power the cloud. Atomically. CAPEX obsessives like myself have focused on the cloud’s vast agglomeration of compute, storage, and networking. But there is another, less appreciated infrastructure dimension: the cloud is in many ways as much about moving electrons as bits. Without a considerable and constant…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go
Tl;dr I’m now writing posts that follow up on posts I didn’t actually get around to writing Last summer I outlined a playlist of posts based on Clash songs. But after borrowing some great titles, my motivation faltered. Should I Stay or Should I Go was triggered by the cloud repatriation debate. Career Opportunities detailed…
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Supercloudifragilisticexpialidocious IV: Please Just Stop
Tl;dr – The “so-called supercloud” still isn’t After taking a few well-deserved months to regroup and potentially formulate a cogent definition, the “supercloud” squad is back, declaring (yet again) “supercloud is becoming a thing”. While that evidently was not enough time to resolve whether “supercloud” takes a definite or indefinite article, the update musters the…