Learning to love a noun for what it tells us about the world today.
>Computing power dials up and down, detached from what any particular machine does
"cattle, not pets", as the somewhat problematic phrase goes.
It seems significant that the AWS cloud-computing product is EC2, aka Elastic Cloud Compute, seemingly nominal?
Definitely a "cattle, not pets" model, first with racks, hosting, and virtualization, then taking up many fold with this model. That term "elastic" was imported from an earlier era, and probably meant a lot to the developers they were targeting.
Doesn't AWS have a _bunch_ of products that (still) have "elastic" in the name? Definitely trying to capture dev attention at that time.
A delightful article that nonetheless left me queasy! 10/10!
Coming from you, sir, that is an 11!
This was really wonderful. Indeed the cloud was a sea change. I watched the entire Jensen Huang video. It was really a treat.
I have a friend who started working for him in 2006, retired this year, so I knew him when he was smalltime. Very nice guy.
>Computing power dials up and down, detached from what any particular machine does
"cattle, not pets", as the somewhat problematic phrase goes.
It seems significant that the AWS cloud-computing product is EC2, aka Elastic Cloud Compute, seemingly nominal?
Definitely a "cattle, not pets" model, first with racks, hosting, and virtualization, then taking up many fold with this model. That term "elastic" was imported from an earlier era, and probably meant a lot to the developers they were targeting.
Doesn't AWS have a _bunch_ of products that (still) have "elastic" in the name? Definitely trying to capture dev attention at that time.
A delightful article that nonetheless left me queasy! 10/10!
Coming from you, sir, that is an 11!
This was really wonderful. Indeed the cloud was a sea change. I watched the entire Jensen Huang video. It was really a treat.
I have a friend who started working for him in 2006, retired this year, so I knew him when he was smalltime. Very nice guy.