• Seattle Conference on Scalability, Pt. I
  StorageMojo’s first take on last weeks scalability conference at Google. Can’t wait to for the vids to come out.
• Joe Miller of Linden Lab speaks at the Catalyst Conference
  Jeff Barr has got some Second Life stats.

• Amazon EC2 and S3 disaster planning
  More on the Amazon SLA discussion. Artur reckons someone should compete with Amazon – I agree – competion is good. A (VERY) tongue in cheek suggestion: as this competition will be a start up, why not bootstrap it using S3 and EC2? If it takes off then you can afford to do your own thing, if it doesn’t then who cares – you don’t own the hardware.
• CFengine
  Must be going senile – never heard of CFEngine before and it seems to have been around for a while.
• Ubuntu bug number one
  lol

• Technical Debt
  Make sure you know what the interest rate is.
• Improve continuously
• The insurance point of view
  Fancy insuring the results of your development process? What would happen if we applied completion guarentees (as used in movies) to software development?
• Four hours upfront and then reevaluate
  The 37signals guys are trying out 4 hour dev cycles. Less is more I suppose.
• Second life bugs
  Ouch!

• Linux: Introducing bugs
  Torvalds tells it like it is.
• i read more blogs on tuesday
  Why don’t I get this from Bloglines?
• Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA
  Interesting comments from Greg Linden and Doug Kaye where they take differing views and I think they are both right. Those SLAs suck if you are trying to run a business that is succesful – +1 to Greg. The economics of EC2 make it a very cheap way of boot strapping an idea. The probability is that the idea will fail any way. +1 to Doug.
  SmugMug pdf from Greg
• WiFi: Record Range Now 382 KM
  That is a long way!

• Evaluating MapReduce for Multi-core and Multiprocessor Systems
• Google Research Labs

• How to develop software like commanding a tank
• Here, here and here
  Interesting to compare build charts from 3 different projects.

• The Importance of the environment
  Jan is right about the manual nature of deployments being the source of all evil. I am not sure about his definition of simplicity though. I would prefer to focus on making the deployment easier through automation regardless of the number of different systems. (but I agree that less is more).
• Google Scalability Conference
  I think Dan might enjoy himself.
• Cal Henderson.

Mike Cohn: Agile Estimation Bay XP Meeting, March 2007

• Part One – video
• Part Two – video