Here is Tim O'Reilly's talk at the Open Compute Summit where he discusses the history of the Open Source movement.
Facebook Graph Search triggers withdrawal for some
ReadWrite has a post by Matt Assay on his withdrawal from Facebook which ironical has 104 Facebook Likes.
In rolling out its new Graph Search, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quick to caution that "it's going to take years to index the whole map of the graph." That's great. It gives me time to completely remove myself from Facebook.
When I dropped off Facebook a few weeks ago, it wasn't in pursuit of some grand, moral crusade. I was simply trying to show solidarity with my 13-year old son, who had become obsessed (addicted?) to a massively multiplayer game played on Facebook. When I took away his Facebook privileges in an attempt to help him kick the habit, I decided that a hiatus from Facebook would do me some good, too, and would show him that I wasn't asking him to give up something that I, too, wasn't willing to abandon.
Little did I suspect the incredible relief that would come from cutting out Facebook and Instagram from my life. (I kept Twitter, however, as it has become a useful business tool for me.)
What is Matt's option. Hang out. Hang out not in Google+, but with real friends.
In sum, I'm enjoying my life sans Facebook, and I imagine I'll enjoy it even more now that Facebook wants to make it even easier to invade my personal space without real value in return. Maybe it will be useful for dating, but I have zero interest in this.
I just want a place to hang out with real friends. It turns out that there's an even better place to do this than Facebook. It's called "the real world."
Facebook and Open Compute disrupt the Server Market
Stacey Higginbotham has a post on Facebook/Open Compute's announcement that disrupts the server market.
Sitting next to Stacey I get a chance to see what she is going to write before it posts and she does a good job of summarizing Frank Frankovsky's opening keynote.
Facebook and Open Compute just blew up the server and disrupted a $55B market
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SUMMARY:Facebook took aim at the hardware business back in April 2011 with the launch of the Open Compute open hardware program, and Wednesday is fired the killing blow at the $55 billion server business.
The launch of two new features into the Open Compute hardware specifications on Wednesday has managed to do what Facebook has been threatening to do since it began building its vanity-free hardware back in 2010. The company has blown up the server — reducing it to interchangeable components.
With this step it has disrupted the hardware business from the chips all the way up to the switches. It has also killed the server business, which IDC estimates will bring in $55 billion in revenue for 2012.
Open Compute Jan 2013, momentum builds
At the Open Compute Summit, there are 1,900 attendees, three times that last event in San Antonio.
So, what is new?
Frank's beard is bigger. Frank is the founder of the Open Compute Project.
Yet some things don't change with Frank he is still in tennis shoes, jeans, and plaid shirt.
I got a chance to chat with Frank briefly before the conference and the board is spending a lot of time thinking about how to keep the momentum.
Just walking in the door I saw a dozen good friends and met a couple of new people.
I'll have a lot more to write over the next few days.
123 spots left for Netflix's Open Source Open House Feb 06, 2013
GigaOm's Barb Darrow posted on Netflix's Open Source announcements, including an open house event where 77 of 200 spots are fill, leaving 123 open.
Netflix wants open-source developers, cloud alternatives
by Barb Darrow
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SUMMARY:Want to hear about the latest and greatest in Netflix’s home-grown technology? The company will host an open-source open house for developers on February 6. The goal is to recruit top-flight developers and to encourage construction of alternatives to Amazon Web Services.
Netflix released anthor monkey theme tool.
Most recently, it open-sourcedJanitor Monkey to automate the cleanup of unused cloud resources. In all, Netflix has put source code for sixteen Netflix-built AWS tools on Github, Cockcroft said.
Janitor Monkey is a much funner name than garbage collection.
Janitor Monkey - Keeping the Cloud Tidy and Clean
By Michael Fu and Cory Bennett, Engineering Tools
One of the great advantages of moving from a private datacenter into the cloud is that you have quick and easy access to nearly limitless new resources. Innovation and experimentation friction is greatly reduced: to push out a new application release you can quickly build up a new cluster, to get more storage just attach a new volume, to backup your data just make a snapshot, to test out a new idea just create new instances and get to work. The downside of this flexbility is that it is pretty easy to lose track of the cloud resources that are no longer needed or used. Perhaps you forgot to delete the cluster with the previous version of your application, or forgot to destroy the volume when you no longer needed the extra disk. Taking snapshots is great for backups, but do you really need them from 12 months ago? It's not just forgetfulness that can cause problems. API and network errors can cause your request to delete an unused volume to get lost.