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CTO Breakfasts… food for the soul (or mind at least)

Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on Apr 17

It’s been a few month’s since I made it out to one of the CTO breakfasts put on by Phil Windley. I am pleased however, that I made it out to one this morning. The caliber of people and discussions at these is just amazing. Phil really does manage to bring the best of the best into these breakfasts (and a few of the rest of us managed to sneak in as well )

Topics today were all about the App Engine by Google, and EC3 by Amazon. Odd to see these two be the players going head to head in this space, but I think we’ll all be the winners in the end. They are really doing with hardware infrastructure what has been done with pipe and power in the past by the Datacenters. The ability to have hardware not only managed and provisioned by someone else, but allocated near real-time when needed. Additionally, the distribution is reported by some to be near as performant as they have seen from some Content Delivery networks… yet another problem solved as part of the outsourcing strategy presented here. I think the key question is not if, but when will these solutions reach a price model that makes more sense for more mature, more stable platforms? And do they intend to? (I personally think the answer to that is yes.)

Thanks to Phil for putting these together! If you are reading this now, wondering if any local events are really worth carving time out of your calendar, and wondering if you will really meet anyone worth meeting, let me just shout a resounding YES for this event. I never walk away hungry.