Happy Data Hour is happening this Thursday, I just stumbled upon it and met the organizers and others. It will be a top group of fun people talking about all sorts of modern data ideas, advances and related topics. In addition, drinks are on the organizers of Keen.io and Digital Ocean. I hear that (and... Continue reading →

Over the last couple years there have been two prominent open source PaaS Solutions come onto the market. Cloud Foundry & OpenShift. There’s been a lot of talk about these plays and the talk has slowly but steadily turned into traction. Large enterprises are picking these up and giving their developers and operations staff a... Continue reading →

For a quick recap of last years Deploycon & related talks, check out my “Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity” entry from last year. PaaS Systems aren’t always effectively distributed. Heroku has fallen over every time east-1 has gone down at AWS. Not that I’m saying they’ve done bad, just pointing that... Continue reading →