• Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? by Alan Williamson. Systemic problems hit AWS as users experience problems across Amazon's infrastructure. It seems the strange attractor of a cloud may be the same as for a shared hosting service.
  • Understanding Infrastructure 2.0 by James Urquhart. We need to take a systems view of our entire infrastructure, and build our automation around the end-to-end architecture of that system.
  • Hey You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds. We show that it is possible to map the internal cloud infrastructure.
  • Hadoop World: Building Data Intensive Apps with Hadoop and EC2  by Pete Skomoroch. Dives into detail about how he built TrendingTopics.org using Hadoop and EC2.
  • A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click. Yes, your mind will hurt after watching this. And no, you probably don't know what your microprocessor is doing anymore.