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Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web

Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web is what makes the web interesting) You have been asking...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-30-2007
I'll be at MIX07

I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be. One of the sessions I'll be looking forward to...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-28-2007
So what do we mean by the 'Internet Cloud'?

Danny dropped by and asked me : "Hi Alex, do you happen to know of any half-decent definition of "the cloud"?" I know it sounds corny, but 'good question'!! So I'll give it a go. Now, I could get textual, but I'll first try to answer with a few pics... Maybe I see the 'cloud' as over-developed green...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-04-2007
If you don't like roller-coasters...

If you don't like roller-coasters, do not check out this interpretation of US house pricing data (adjusted for inflation) since since 1890 to today. Via information aesthetics .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-04-2007
Scalability at Amazon (notes)

Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com spoke at Supernova 2006 on the topic of Scalability at Amazon and the talk is available as a podcast at IT Conversations ( thanks to James Governor for the link ). I made some notes as I listened this morning and thought I'd share: A services business. Amazon.com...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-01-2007
JSON - are you ready?

Assaf's post cracked me up this morning - JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition? . Here's a sample: The problem with JSON is … (item: true) [ ] I never used it, so I wouldn’t know. [ ] That’s why I never use it. [ ] No angle brackets. [ ] Too simple...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-16-2007
'how much' is a petabyte?

Last week I quoted a footnote to this post trying to convey the size of an exabyte: " an exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 10 18 bytes - there 1024 petabytes in an exabyte or 1,073,741,824 gigabytes in an exabyte. To give you an idea of what this means, five exabytes of information is...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-13-2007
The Expanding Digital Universe

IDC and EMC have released a new study today - 'The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010' . (press release here ). It's fascinating stuff. The research follows previous work conducted at the University of California, Berkeley (I've blooged...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2007
The Top 10 Databases in the World (not including the ones we missed)

Via Josh Porter 's del.icio.us links , I saw this post on Business Intelligence Lowdown, claiming to 'cover the top 10 largest databases in the world'. Great idea, shame about the execution, as just reading from the comments shows they've missed some huge DBs. Some commenters have also...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-21-2007
Dr. Peter Chen - the ER Model and ADO.NET Entity Framework - Podcast

A couple of weeks ago Dr Peter Chen , inventor of the Entity-Relationship model (ER model), visited the Microsoft Campus to provide a lecture sharing his thoughts on the ADO.NET Entity Framework . As we were planning his visit, he was very keen to make sure that his views could be shared with a wider...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-20-2007

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