Once there were mainframes that were standalone systems, fed by punch cards and teletypewriters. They had tight roles, based on access control models, often externalised to the operating system and application.
Matt Hackling | 21 Jul | Read more
There is a buzz in Australia, post Amazon’s Web Services Summit, around a few cloud related concepts. I will try and distill.
Matt Hackling | 08 May | Read more
After the debacle that has been Click Frenzy, I'm going to focus on availability. Click Frenzy was a coordinated advertising promotion with a large number of Australian online shopping websites. This sounded like a great idea, and many retailers paid good money to be part of it. The problem was that the click frenzy website struggled under the load and so did a few of the online retailers, resulting in a vicious backlash on social media.
Matt Hackling | 28 Nov | Read more
We were eager for this box to arrive from Clearswift, this kind of kit gets us excited. We were expecting a hardware appliance to be shipped to us, but when opened the box, all we found was a 1RU Dell Server.
Matt Hackling | 20 Mar | Read more