posted 02/23/2012 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
This year’s Cloud Connect crowd converged on Santa Clara to talk performance, our favorite topic, at the Cloud Performance Summit. For those who weren’t able to make it, attendees included Alistair Croll from BitCurrent, Adrian Cockroft from NetFlix, Lori Mac Vittie from F5 and a who’s who from the internet community at large. I took away
posted 12/09/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 1 comments
This week, Amazon announced that it would be starting a round of scheduled maintenance of EC2 instances which caused a stir in the Twittersphere. The maintenance window is 6 hours long. AWS customers were notified this week that EC2 instances would be rebooted next week. Speculation on the reasons and impact of the AWS reboot
posted 11/28/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
Our friends at NetDNA are having a Cyber Monday deal that looks hard to resist. The deal is probably better than any Groupon deal that you’ve seen. $1 for the first TB — 98% savings! According to the pricing page, the regular price in US and Europe would be $61.44 for the first TB of traffic But
posted 11/26/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
This week I had the opportunity to attend a face-off sponsored by the Seattle Web Technology Meetup Group. Rather than a pitch from vendors, the face-off featured a company using each technology stack to educate the audience on the respective merits and gotchas of the stacks. I thought it would be interesting to examine the
posted 11/17/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
So you have a witty set of 140 characters with a shortened URL linked to some brilliant content. What’s next? Well, you’re in your favorite app or web site and you tweet it of course. What are the chances that the tweet will go through? How long will it take? We collected data from real
posted 11/03/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 1 comments
As more and more of online traffic comes from countries outside of North America and Western Europe, online companies are looking to Brazil, Russia, India, and China as sources for growth. When entering a new market, your business would consider the economics of the local markets and examine environmental factors: political stability, economic conditions, social
posted 10/21/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
Having spent nearly a decade with the traditional set of site monitoring tools entrenched in large-scale web sites including MSN, Bing, and Windows Live (you know where I worked), I’ve formed a few opinions on what’s important to measure and monitor. First and foremost, I chose to focus my energy on the customer experience. If
posted 10/11/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at InterOp Enterprise Cloud Summit in New York City. Hats off to Alistair Croll from Bitcurrent for putting together a thought-provoking session of workshops in which we presented Comparing Public Clouds: The State of On-Demand Performance. With 28 million measurements (across 34,000 networks ad 185 countries) in
posted 10/01/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 0 comments
This year has been a rough year for the cloud. We’ve seen the biggest names including Amazon AWS, Google AppEngine and Microsoft Azure demonstrate the challenges in delivering on the promise of “always on” utility computing. Imagine the world’s brightest engineers with massive budgets empowered to capture a piece of the $148 billion cloud market.
posted 09/23/2011 by Ed Sarausad, comments: 3 comments
Here at Cedexis, we like to think we have a pulse on the internet. Today we found something very juicy that got us very excited, so we had to share it. In a nutshell, it looks like Amazon’s CloudFront is now in Brazil. Across the 9 in-country networks where we collect Radar measurements, we see