Comments on: SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)

By: Could Skynet be a Cloud Application, and Should I be Scared? « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that “stuff” in-between

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:31:13 +0000

[...] Friday… so time for something completely different, Smugmug have already built skynet here on EC2 which decided it wanted more power… and made a semi-autonomous decision to scale itself [...]

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » I’m not speaking at Cloud Computing Expo 2008

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:20:09 +0000

[...] Computing Expo 2008 West (how’s that for a mouthful?) and accepted, planning on talking about SkyNet, S3, and our future use of cloud computing. Alas, my Inbox is so crazy, I failed to see the handful [...]

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:14:51 +0000

[...] a Linux geek, have been since 1993 (Slackware!). All of SmugMug’s datacenters (and our EC2 images) are built on Linux. But the current state of filesystems on Linux is awful, and it’s been [...]

By: neoTactics » Clouds are not Datacenters

neoTactics » Clouds are not Datacenters — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:52:02 +0000

[...] in the cloud to date have been developers, like Don McAskill of SmugMug and his exploits with SkyNet. There is still a dearth of operations and IT experts developing innovative new tools in the cloud. [...]

By: Mike Brittain » Blog Archive » Some Thoughts on Cloud Computing

Mike Brittain » Blog Archive » Some Thoughts on Cloud Computing — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:03:32 +0000

[...] mean, however, that you can’t build your application to do this. Read Don MacAskill’s SkyNet posting to get some idea of how that can [...]

By: Mike Brittain » Blog Archive » How We Built a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:45:45 +0000

[...] We can spin up new machines and put them into production in under 20 minutes. This isn’t (SkyNet), but it’s pretty darn [...]

By: Some Thoughts on Cloud Computing « Mike Brittain

Some Thoughts on Cloud Computing « Mike Brittain — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:32:26 +0000

[...] mean, however, that you can’t build your application to do this. Read Don MacAskill’s SkyNet posting to get some idea of how that can [...]

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:43:40 +0000

All your Amazon posts have been great, and have helped us model our own approach from your experience. The one question I have is how you handle backing-up S3? I think in one of your previous posts I read that you use them as your primary storage, but haven’t read anything about backups. I’m trying to formulate our own backup strategy, but I’d be interested in any ideas or experiences you could share.

By: Christopher D. Cera · My Chariot Techcast Interview

Christopher D. Cera · My Chariot Techcast Interview — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:37:33 +0000

[...] Skynet (via SmugMug) [...]

By: How We Built a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2 « Mike Brittain

How We Built a Web Hosting Infrastructure on EC2 « Mike Brittain — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:28:14 +0000