Category Archives: Cloud

Ensemble, Go, and MongoDB at Canonical

Posted on 2011-08-05 by Gustavo Niemeyer

About 1 year after development started in Ensemble, today the stars finally aligned just the right way (review queue mostly empty, no other pressing needs, etc) for me to start writing the specification about the repository system we’ve been jointly … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, C/C++, Cloud, Design, Go, PostgreSQL, Project, Python | 7 Comments

Vector clock support for Go

Posted on 2010-12-21 by Gustavo Niemeyer

One more Go library oriented towards building distributed systems hot off the presses: govclock. This one offers full vector clock support for the Go language. Vector clocks allow recording and analyzing the inherent partial ordering of events in a distributed … Continue reading →

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Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Erlang, Mobile, Project, Python | 1 Comment

Recovering a bootable EBS image

Posted on 2010-03-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Scott Moser has just announced this week that the new Ubuntu images which boot out of an EBS-based root filesystem in EC2, and thus will persist across reboots, are available for testing. As usual with something that just left the … Continue reading →

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The last 4 years (and the next N?)

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Some interesting changes have been happening in my professional life, so I wanted to share it here to update friends and also for me to keep track of things over time (at some point I will be older and will … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Java, Project, Python | 5 Comments

Google won’t kill standalone GPS

Posted on 2009-10-30 by Gustavo Niemeyer

It was already dead. In some senses, anyway. Google announced a couple of days ago that they’re advancing into the business of GPS guided navigation, rather than staying with their widely popular offering of mapping and positioning only. This announcement … Continue reading →

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Virtual Private Cloud is not the Private Cloud

Posted on 2009-08-27 by Gustavo Niemeyer

More than 40 years ago, a guy named Douglas Parkhill described the concept of utility computing. He described it as containing features such as: Essentially simultaneous use of the system by many remote users. Concurrent running of different multiple programs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud | 4 Comments