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Basic scalability principles to avert downtime

Ronald Bradford
April 23, 2011

In the press in the last two days has been the reported outage of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in just one North Virginia data center. This has affected many large website includes FourSquare , Hootsuite , Reddit and Quora .

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Problems compiling MySQL 5.4

Ronald Bradford
June 11, 2009

Seem’s the year Sun had for improving MySQL , and with an entire new 5.4 branch the development team could not fix the autoconf and compile dependencies that has been in MySQL for all the years I’ve been compiling MySQL.

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Announcing Drizzle on EC2

Ronald Bradford
April 27, 2009

I have published the very first sharable Drizzle Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for AWS EC2, based on the good feedback from my discussion at the Drizzle Developer Day on what options we should try.

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Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Presentation

Ronald Bradford
April 22, 2009

On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account.

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Extending application data to the cloud

Ronald Bradford
August 1, 2008

I was one of the invited panel speakers to A panel on Cloud Computing this week in New York. As one of 2 non vendor presenters, it was a great experience to be invited and be involved with vendors.

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Your data and the cloud

Ronald Bradford
July 19, 2008

I will be speaking on July 29th in New York at an Entrepreneurs Forum on A Free Panel on Cloud Computing . With a number of experts including Hank Williams of KloudShare, Mike Nolet of AppNexus, and Hans Zaunere of New York PHP fame is should be a great event.

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Getting Started with Simple DB

Ronald Bradford
July 13, 2008

With my continued investigation of evaluating alternative data management with cloud computing options, I’m now evaluating Amazon Simple DB . Still in restricted beta, it helps to have a friend on the inside.

Amazon EC2 S3 Web Development

Setting up on EC2

Ronald Bradford
June 20, 2008

Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I got an EC2 image setup. With other references Link 1 ,Link 2 ,Link 3 I was also able to create my own AMI.