Sawickipedia Tumblr
We built server capacity for the day before Thanksgiving, then use only 50 percent of it the rest of the year,” said Lisa Sharples, president of the site, which is based in Seattle.
“
—

NEW YORK TIMES NO-KNEAD BREADImage by spike55151 via Flickr

Butterballs or Cheese Balls, an Online Barometer - NYTimes.com
Also: “How to” is the second-largest category on YouTube.
(via jryu)

Rafer sez:
This is “How Not To” provision server capacity in 2008, never mind 2009. Double the number of your instances in the cloud for that Wednesday and dial them back the rest of the year. Saves money, time, coal, etc.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta] (via rafer)

Sawickipedia: @rafer - it just hit me - there is going to be a wave of companies/startups that move to the cloud and beat incumbents as a result (much like amazon moved retail to the web).  Not sure how to play that investment thesis but it seems like a winner.  Given the cost and operational advantages of the clouse makes way too much sense.
Reblogged 2 years ago from rafer (Originally from jryu)
8 notes • View comments
Source: jryu
  1. brianbreslin reblogged this from rafer
  2. rafer reblogged this from sawickipedia
  3. sawickipedia reblogged this from rafer
  4. jryu reblogged this from rafer
  5. spytap reblogged this from rafer
  6. jryu posted this
Blog comments powered by Disqus