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Joshua McKentyFounder at Piston Cloud Computing |
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| Video: NASA Nebula's Chief Architect on Cloud Computing |
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July 16 2010
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Dell's cloud evangelist, Barton George, talks to NASA Nebula's Chief Architect at the inaugural OpenStack design summit. |
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| Cognition Balls-in-the-air Entrepreneurship and Juggling. |
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| June 14 2011 |
| What does it mean to be OpenStack? OpenStack has become something of a lightning rod for media attention – attention which, sadly, focuses reliably on the fear, uncertainty and doubt that any disruptive ecosystem will naturally produce. Much like the eddies that form on the edges of fast-moving water, this open-source project throws off a [...] ... read more >> |
| February 14 2011 |
| Many of you are probably expecting me to say something about my new venture, Piston. You might be expecting some discussion of the Rackspace acquisition of Anso Labs, or why I left Anso. In fact, you might (quite reasonably) be expecting me to talk about why I left NASA. Too bad. Have I lost my [...] ... read more >> |
| November 06 2010 |
| We’ve been using JPype at GEM to integrate some existing legacy Java libraries with the new Python code in OpenQuake. Until today, one of the ugliest parts of this integration has been logging – although we’re using the popular Log4J library to manage log output within the Java code, the Jpype JVM has a separate [...] ... read more >> |
| August 23 2010 |
| EDIT: Feel free to contact me by twitter DM as well: http://twitter.com/jmckenty As most of you have by now figured out from my FourSquare stream, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in Europe. In fact, I’ve taken a sabbatical from NASA to work on the Global Earthquake Model. This international project is headquartered [...] ... read more >> |
| July 22 2010 |
| I didn’t sleep much on Sunday night. By the time I headed for bed, the news was out, and the twittubes were flooded. Desperate to get sleep, but I’m terrified to wake up to 1,000 new bug reports. It’s like streaking the quad, but with code. #openstack @jmckenty There was a video up from an [...] ... read more >> |
| May 28 2010 |
| It’s live, it’s buggy, it’s beta. Check it out: http://novacc.org From the website: Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller (the main part of an IaaS system) built to match the popular AWS EC2 and S3 APIs. It is written in Python, using the Tornadoand Twisted frameworks, and relies on the standard AMQP messaging protocol, and the Redis distributed KVS. Nova is intended [...] ... read more >> |
| April 25 2009 |
| PROBLEM: Help people understand how cool webhooks are. PROBLEM: Find out when there’s new content on a site. SOLUTION: Put a webhook into the site’s search indexing tool – SOLR. SOLUTION: Custom SOLR Token Filter. WHY? Every cool web app (sooner or later) has some cool content in it. So you [...] ... read more >> |
| February 23 2009 |
| Most of my (non-work-related) thinking these days circles around how we, as a species, a culture, or a geographical collection of human flesh, can make a smooth recovery from our petroleum addiction. I read a fair bit on the subject, from the “Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook”, to my current muse, “Peak Everything”. As is [...] ... read more >> |
| February 19 2009 |
| I’ve never done a round-up post before, so now must be a good time. Here are a few cool things I’ve found recently: How to use VPN to solve VoIP problems As some of you may be aware, when I’m not busy with my day job at NASA, I run a small VoIP company. The [...] ... read more >> |
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