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Cloudbursting

September 17, 2008 in , , , , , with 129 Comments

Cloudbursting

Technical term referring to the transition to a dynamic state of a network infrastructure as an events mitigation process. It entail to both asynchronous and synchronous expansion toward or inside a computer cloud. Each such burst is followed by a period of quiescence before the next burst occurs.

Event such as high workload and extreme traffic spike can cause a correctly configured environment to cloudburst.

The term seem to have been used first, in July 2008, by William Fellows (Principal Analyst @ 451group) in a report and pushed forward by Jeffrey Barr (Technology evangelist of Amazon AWS) on a blog in august 2008.

This is my personal definition, yet I think it summarize the process. Anything that needs to be added ?

Narcissisme appliqué

May 23, 2007 in with 1 Comment

Hier, ma copine m’a envoyé un article provenant du site de radio-canada (surement dans l’espoir caché qu’un jour je m’éduque convenablement). C’était cet article ainsi que cette page. Deux références directes vers ce blogue, plus précisément ma levée aux armes contre la STM.

Je pourrais jouer à hypocrite et dire «haaa, je le savais», «je ne l’avais même pas remarqué ». Soyons honnêtes, 400 visiteurs, en une soirée, sur un blogue qui reçoit ça en 2 semaines, ça laisse une marque. Avoir su, j’aurais peut-être revisé/corrigé mon billet.

Donc, je vais, de ce pas, retourner dans l’anonymat et vous souhaiter une bonne journée.

Le pire c’est que j’ai été «linké» pour un article affublé du «tag» «procrastination», dans la section «société» de Radio-Canada. C’est que je suis un administrateur système! Pffff… bon, il est temps de retourner dans l’anonymat. À la prochaine!

DemoCamp-Cusec

January 19, 2007 in with 66 Comments

I’m slowly getting the trick at speaking in front of group… this time: around 60 peoples, mostly part of the english high-tech community of Montreal. Here is a list of the presentation, excluding mine:

If your into programming, you should check the development of Frysk, by Mike Cvet and Nurdin – A very promising debuger tool, especialy for the threading support and system call tracing. I’d love to see history support (relative time-line). DesktopBeautifier, something you might want to try if you are using Windows. Changing your desktop background dynamicaly, fetching picture from a selection of deviantart users. It kinda look like Webshot software that I had to fight against customer to remove for security reasons, so I don’t really know if I would be installing it. ReactOS was presented by the technical lead of the project, Alex Ionescu. Another 2 years of developpement and the system should be ready for full deployment in corporate environment.. with some technical support plan. But, in 2 years from now, where will the operating system industry be. If you ever need to migrate your blog, contact Derek Mahar. He is doing miracles with Ruby. Using Sugar to Sweeten your Javascript, by Sebastien Pierre – Very nice programmation language. I don’t have that much experience with javascript but I know enough, it’s going to be a big thing. You Have to Break a Few Eggs to Make an Omelette, by SimonLaw. Nice presentation, we don’t often see someone bringing eggs, a stove, plates, forks and spice to a conference room.

1Y0-308 is not as hard as people believe it to be. If you have scored well on 156-215 or 220-602, it should not be difficult for you. Anyways, if you plan to attempt 640-863 later, studying for 70-27070-291 will prove quite helpful.

HAL

January 17, 2007 in with 22 Comments

5H00, AM

http://www.halproject.net – Has been updated with a new informations and guides. I’ve also updated the sources on the central repository (thanks again, step.polymtl.ca ;-)).

Now, I have 4 hours before my next dead-line. At least i’ve got some stuff prepared… but I can’t go to sleep or i’ll miss the meeting and it’s on the other side of the town.

This is going to be an awesome year… if all it cost me is a couple nights sleep, I can live that. I hope ;-).

Next unconf.

January 15, 2007 in with Comments Off

As the lead of the project, I will be giving a live technical demo of the latest version of HAL, at the DemoCamp-CUSEC next thursday. That kind of unconference is normaly a very good opportunity to do some tech-wiz recruiting in the Montreal area. The rules are simple : you get a 15 minutes, no powerpoint. You got a gizmo to show, or you don’t, no place there for vaporware.

The source code of the new version should be available by tomorrow, which is great since i’ve been promising it to IleSansFil for about a month, to WirelessToronto for about 3 weeks and to Nantes-Wireless for about 1 week ;-)
Who knows, This might help me to get good offer for job… sending my cv might also, but jeez, way too much work ;-).

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