Comments on: Cloud Computing and High Availability http://punetech.com/cloud-computing-and-high-availability/ Information about software, engineering, IT, technology, companies, institutes in Pune, India Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:19:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Randall http://punetech.com/cloud-computing-and-high-availability/comment-page-1/#comment-4130 Randall Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:16:08 +0000 http://punetech.com/?p=100#comment-4130 Until I started showing people our internal systems, I never realized how rare it is for companies to eat their own dog food. Our entire operation runs on the Qrimp platform, everything from user signup, CRM, discussion forums, invoicing, HR, trouble tickets... everything. None of our competitors can say that. Until I started showing people our internal systems, I never realized how rare it is for companies to eat their own dog food. Our entire operation runs on the Qrimp platform, everything from user signup, CRM, discussion forums, invoicing, HR, trouble tickets… everything.

None of our competitors can say that.

]]> By: navin http://punetech.com/cloud-computing-and-high-availability/comment-page-1/#comment-3123 navin Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:50:19 +0000 http://punetech.com/?p=100#comment-3123 @wong, thanks. I agree that "eating your dog food" is a great technique to ensure quality of your service. However, having a monitoring service on top of that is also useful. I am sure we will see the emergence of such services (like CloudStatus) to help us out. @wong, thanks. I agree that “eating your dog food” is a great technique to ensure quality of your service. However, having a monitoring service on top of that is also useful. I am sure we will see the emergence of such services (like CloudStatus) to help us out.

]]> By: wong http://punetech.com/cloud-computing-and-high-availability/comment-page-1/#comment-3122 wong Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:10:37 +0000 http://punetech.com/?p=100#comment-3122 [In theory it would be nice if a cloud computing service would export APIs, ... However, most of the times the status page is updated much later after the service goes down. So, that wouldn’t help much.] [A simple search on search.twitter.com can tell you things that you won't find on web pages.] Although API monitoring is often quoted because its cost is minimal, IMHO a bigger picture should be seen from the user's perspective. This could be as simple as "eating your dog food", that is, your company internally uses and critically depends on the very same technology that you are marketing. This gives the real incentive for everyone in your company to aggressively seek out and fix problems. [In theory it would be nice if a cloud computing service would export APIs, ... However, most of the times the status page is updated much later after the service goes down. So, that wouldn’t help much.]

[A simple search on search.twitter.com can tell you things that you won't find on web pages.]

Although API monitoring is often quoted because its cost is minimal, IMHO a bigger picture should be seen from the user’s perspective.

This could be as simple as “eating your dog food”, that is, your company internally uses and critically depends on the very same technology that you are marketing. This gives the real incentive for everyone in your company to aggressively seek out and fix problems.

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