Link Collection (weekly)

• Bye, Bye My Clustered AMIs…A Cloud Tribute to Don McLean | Rational Survivability

  @Beaker’s rockin’ tribute to Don McLean, inspired by Amazon’s EC2 woes. [If you aren’t reading Beaker, you are missing out on tremendous cloud knowledge.]

  “I started singin’
  bye-bye, my clustered AMIs
  I tried to launch one
  it just sat there, much to my surprise
  And them angry devs were telling stories and lies
  Singin’ “this public cloud I now despise
  “this public cloud, I now despise.””

  tags: amazon ec2 beaker cloudcomputing

• Column 2 : IBM BPM: Merging the Paths

  Sandy Kemsley weighs in on IBM’s BPM release.

  “It’s important to look at how the IBM organization has realigned to allow for the new product release: Phil Gilbert, former president and CTO of Lombardi, now has overall responsibility for all of WebSphere BPM – including both the former Lombardi and WebSphere BPM products – plus ILOG rules management. Neil Ward-Dutton referred to this as the reverse takeover of IBM by Lombardi; when I had a chance for a 1:1 with Phil at Impact, I told him that we’d all bet that he would be gone from IBM after a year. He admitted that he originally thought so too, until they gave him the opportunity to do exactly what he knew needed to be done: bring together all of the IBM BPM offerings into a unified offering. This new product announcement is the beginning of that unification, but they still have a ways to go.

  Let’s take a look at the product offering, then…”

  tags: bpm ibm skemsley column2

• StreamBase Loves Erlang (The StreamBase Event Processing Blog)

  “StreamBase allows business analysts, actuaries, quantitative contributors and developers to share a common language. An event-driven integration whiteboard, if you will, that compiles to efficient optimized native binary code. Add Erlang for development of analytics like MACD and you have a powerful combination.”

  …”Learn more by watching Darach’s presentation here, and follow him on Twitter at @darachennis”

  tags: streambase erlang cep event_processing clients

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.