Weekly Roundup: Cloud Data Posts
March 12, 2015 | Jeff Weinstein

Over burritos, our team enjoys discussing what’s new in cloud data infrastructure. Here are a few recent articles and announcements that caught our eye:

1. Three Myths about Hybrid Architectures Using the Cloud

Stephen Orban, Head of AWS Enterprise Strategy, unpacks a few commonly held beliefs about hybrid architectures. A must read for larger companies that are attempting to migrate from legacy systems.

2. Video of Mesosphere's DCOS

Check out this awesome demonstration and rad visualization of Mesosphere’s DCOS by Matt Trifiro.

3. Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon, details how cloud based analytics can improve different sectors including healthcare, cities, internet of things as well as business intelligence.

4. Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline: (near)online data at an offline price

Google recently announced $0.01 per GB per month storage, available with ~3 second response time. Amazing!

5. Cloud-Client Computing

A few months ago, Andreessen Horowitz published 16 ideas they’re watching and the one that spoke to us the most is cloud-client computing. It’s how we’ve architected Wagon and is worth a repost!

Also, shoutout to our friend and Quizlet infrastructure lead Peter Bakkum on his open source tool for capturing and replaying HTTP traffic. We love seeing the old Hyperpublic crew doing big things.