In my last post, I outlined how difficult and nearly impossible a true 99.999 percent uptime is to provide. And, with some of the largest sites on the planet failing to deliver so-called "five nines," is it even worth pursuing?...
June 2008 Archives
For the past nine years, I have spent my energy delivering services to users of web-based applications. In that time, I have heard many different marketing messages targeted toward business users, some of which I react to more negatively than...
Granted, there is a lot of growth in the SaaS (Software as a Service) market around providing "Platforms as a Service" (PaaS), targeting developers to build applications and host them on a platform. These models apparently seem to be centered...
As an early adopter of Web app technology, I routinely get pinged by people I know with alerts and stories. Yesterday I got pinged on the Google Apps Engine outage posting on Techcrunch and the headline states "Google App Engine...