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September 4, 2008 at 2:07 am · Filed under Cloud Computing, Tech
I’ve been thinking a lot about distributed applications lately, in particular, those that make use of distributed data stores and XMPP.
What began as an experiment with application log monitoring and retention using log4j and XMPP has grown into an idea for presence at the application or service level.
What if your internet service or application used XMPP to report changes in “mood” or more specifically changes in service level? What if every application had an embedded SLA monitoring and reporting component?
Let’s say that you run an internet-scale service such as del.icio.us or flickr and every node communicated it’s service level to a federated XMPP service. Your ops team could subscribe to specific or aggregated service levels and receive notification of SLA thresholds and at the same time have real-time presence or “pulse”.
You could define service level or “mood” for the application at specific granular levels and use simple filtering of log messages to set/project the application’s “mood”.
Storage service level: 100% (no outage in the last 10 mins.)
User service level: 99.9% (5 dropped in the last 10 mins.)
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Over all service level: 99.99% (within advertised SLA range)
January 28, 2008 at 12:50 am · Filed under Friction, Tech
In spite of the undeniable improvements that Google brings to this new connected age, I struggle to accept the cost vs. benefit of trusting them with my data.
Even with their recent entries into the renewable energy space, it still worries me that “organizing the world’s data” includes making money off any bread-crumbs I happen to leave in the Google cloud, including but not limited to my private email or RSS reading habits.
This post by Jessica Hagy at Indexed captures my fear pretty succinctly.
January 31, 2007 at 1:46 am · Filed under Energy, Tech
Google Trends show world wide search for “global warming” is heavier than the search for “climate change.” Interesting. Unfortunately, we don’t know the actual number of searches so its hard to draw real conclusions from this. It’s probably safe to say that people are becoming concerned. Link
Blue=Global Warming
Red=Climate Change
December 28, 2005 at 10:24 am · Filed under Tech
Tonight I added the Steam theme and the FAlbum Flickr photo plugin. I think it looks better and I’ll appreciate the integration with Flickr for sure.
I also added a link to one of my Squidoo lenses called Mobi. In the Meta section of the side bar. Squidoo is kind of like an all-in-one aggregator of popular web usage models, including RSS, Flickr, tagging, Adsense, linking, ranking. The idea is to create a “Lens” using these various technologies to focus on something that you are an expert in.
