planetjoe

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by planetjoe 15y ago
The SQL Federation feature is pretty awesome. Is there anyone else offering a managed RDBMS with built in sharding capabilities?
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by planetjoe 15y ago
MS is trying to push enterprises to move their datacenters to azure. To do this, they have to support a wide array of technologies such as java/memcached/ruby.
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by planetjoe 15y ago
Windows Azure "machines" are just normal windows VMs. So you'd "administer" from unix however you'd administer a windows machine from unix. (?) You can easily RDP into azure instances, so you could do that from linux if that's what your as
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by planetjoe 15y ago
But then you have to go to the animal shelter. What about a startup that brings the shelter puppy to you for a fee, which is then split with the shelter? Win Win Win?
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by planetjoe 15y ago
Point well taken. I can't seriously argue against Tufte or actual research, but I still like pie charts for some things.
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by planetjoe 15y ago
I'm getting off-point here, but did anyone else get annoyed that the MS blog post used bar charts when they should use pie charts to compare relative percentages?
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by planetjoe 15y ago
It should be noted that many of the services that have been mentioned (heroku, dotcloud) are built on top of AWS, so they'll be no more reliable than AWS. Other big players in the cloud space are MS Azure and Rackspace.
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by planetjoe 15y ago
I just returned to linux after a ~7 year hiatus and have found it to be a night and day experience. My xp install had gotten so bad that I was forced to escape and decided to try ubuntu on a whim. I'm so glad I did because the OS is reall