a broken thought

Here’s an interesting talk that I just watched:

dotScale 2013 – Brad Fitzpatrick – Software I’m excited about

And some links to go with it:

1. Fast, cheap, reliable VMs
   • http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
   • https://developers.google.com/appengine/
   • http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/
   • https://www.hpcloud.com/
   • (must not mention Azure)
2. Good machine + cluster management system
   • https://www.docker.io/
   • https://juju.ubuntu.com/
   • http://www.openstack.org/
3. Good programming language
   • http://golang.org/
4. Good lock server
   • https://github.com/ha/doozer
   • https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf
   • https://github.com/goraft/raft
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
   • http://research.google.com/archive/chubby.html
5. Bonus – Money
   • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
6. Brad’s Side project
   • http://camlistore.org/