AWS and large data sets

May 21, 2009 | by Aaron
We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into [...]
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QCon SF 2008 – Day 1

November 19, 2008 | by Omar
Coming into this conference I have some very high expectations due to the calibre of the speakers at the conference. That being said, it started off with a bang, the opening keynote featured Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons of ThoughtWorks on the topic of how an architect and the agile process are complementary and not adversaries as many many think.
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