[100050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Sun Oct 14 05:39:18 2007
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Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:37:47 +0100
To: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
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On 14 Oct 2007, at 01:26, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> - New Media / Web 2.0
> HUH?
I understand what Lorell means - the web 2.0 scaling model is to
throw resources, rather than intelligence at your bottlenecks.
I met some 'web 2' people at a conference quite recently, and they
were telling me their platform scales because they can keep throwing
servers at a cluster and performance increases. Problem is that it
needs to scale early, and scale often. I asked if any of them
understood the power requirements of a typical server, whether they'd
heard of the power constraints in the datacentres that they'd all
heard of, and how this model affected their new company's OSS costs
long-term, and none of them knew.
Scaling meant something else when I was solving these problems for
the first time.
