{"id":1844,"date":"2013-02-15T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:09:54","slug":"cloud-computing-bible-by-barrie-sosinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"cloud computing bible by barrie sosinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first comment I have about {{Barrie Sosinsky}}’s book, {{Cloud Computing Bible}} is that it’s the first one I’ve read that doesn’t appear to have any sucky parts.<\/p>\n

This is a plus.<\/p>\n

{{Hybrid Cloud for Dummies}} was pretty much a waste of time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

{{Deploying OpenStack}} was even worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

{{Sosinsky}}’s work, though, is not only less temporally-constrained, but actually provides a huge amount of useful information in a nice, tight package.<\/p>\n

Pages 27-28, for example, demonstrate a list he calls, “”The laws of cloudonomics” (drawn from Gigaom<\/a>). In summary:<\/p>\n

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  1. Utility services cost less even though they cost more<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. On-demand trumps forecasting<\/li>\n
  3. The peak of the sum is never greater than the sum of the peaks<\/li>\n
  4. Aggregate demand is smoother than individual<\/li>\n
  5. Average unit costs are reduced by distributing fixed costs over more units of output<\/li>\n
  6. Superiority in numbers is the most important factor in the result of a combat (Clausewitz)<\/li>\n
  7. Space-time is a continuum (Einstein\/Minkowski)<\/li>\n
  8. Dispersion is the inverse square of latency<\/li>\n
  9. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket<\/li>\n
  10. An object at rest tends to stay at rest (Newton)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    While the book does use individual exemplars (often open-source), Sosinsky took great pains to make as exhaustive a list as could be at the time of publishing – and indicates every time a list is about to be encountered that there are more options that were missed.<\/p>\n

    A few items in the book\u00a0are<\/em> dated (like {{Google Apps: The Missing Manual}} was<\/a>). However, the vast majority of the content is as useful today as it was in 2011 when the book was published. This is an impressive accomplishment for a technical book. Especially for one written in the approximately-nascent\u00a0world of {{cloud computing}}.<\/p>\n

    This is one of the few tech books I would recommend to anyone interested in the topics of cloud computing. I haven’t bought a copy … yet (my library<\/a> has a pretty good system). But I want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The first comment I have about {{Barrie Sosinsky}}’s book, {{Cloud Computing Bible}} is that it’s the first one I’ve read that doesn’t appear to have any sucky parts. This is a plus. {{Hybrid Cloud for Dummies}} was pretty much a waste of time. {{Deploying OpenStack}} was even worse. {{Sosinsky}}’s work, though, is not only less …
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