Punching the Clouds
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Fast-paced overview that ties skydiving risks to cloud risks and insists cloud is concrete when you name the technologies and numbers: virtualization, hypervisors, VMS, GCC and emac experience, open source and open protocols, IBM 360 lessons, and the economic rule generate more value than you capture. Claims include sysadmins automating themselves with complex shell scripts and a looming scale target of 10 billion user-facing internet nodes, asking who will build the "Linux of cloud computing."
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