“imitate the superficial exterior of a process or system without having any understanding of the underlying substance” --Wikipedia During and after WWII, some native south pacific islanders erroneously associated the presence of war related...

From James Hamilton’s Degraded Operations Mode: “In Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services I’ve argued that all services should expect to be overloaded and all services should expect mass failures.  Very few do and I see related...

Sun's SPARC servers have the ability to boot a kernel and run an installer across a routed network using only HTTP or HTTPS. On SPARC platforms, the (BIOS|Firmware|Boot PROM) can download a bootable kernel and mini root file system via HTTP/HTTPS,...

I normally don’t embed things in this blog, but this one is too good to pass up: Deciding who is important is interesting. Senior management wants to see a plan. Middle manager needs to decide who is important. If Middle Manager says...

Where else? The real time, authoritative source for all things everywhere: I’m not sure if this is a reflection on Twitter or Society. Probably the latter. ---