Learning From Elevators To Design Dynamic Systems

Elevators suck. They are not smart enough to know which floor you might want to go. They aren't designed to avoid crowding in single ele...

Simple Workflow Service - Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time

Yesterday, Amazon announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service . I would encourage you to read the announcement on W...

Early Signs Of Big Data Going Mainstream

Today, Cloudera announced a new $40m funding round to scale their sales and marketing efforts and a partnership with NetApp where NetApp w...

Parallelism On The Cloud And Polygot Programmers

I am very passionate about the idea of giving developers the control over parallelism without them having to deal with the underlying execut...

Making The Cut To Favorite Cloud, SaaS, And Tech Bloggers

The Dealmaker Media has published a list of their favorite Cloud, SaaS, and Tech bloggers . Once again I am happy to report that I made the ...

Drupal On The Cloud, Beyond Content Management

This post is co-authored by Manish Garg and Chirag Mehta Drupal is widely recognized as a great content management system, but we strongly ...

Salesforce.com's $212 Million Acquisition of Heorku - A Sparkling Gem In Radiant Future Of Cloud And PaaS

I met James Lindenbaum, a founder of Heroku, in early 2009, at the Under The Radar conference in Mountain View. We had a long conversation o...

A Laundromat Entrepreneur

In my previous post � While Entrepreneurs Scale On The Cloud The Angels Get Supersized � I wrote about how cloud computing is disrupting the...