Software Physics

I remember not quite understanding the big deal about P2P until the first time I downloaded a song from Napster. At which point all the lights went on. Same thing is happening with EC2. I’ve been following the grid/utility computing thing for a while now struggling to keep from falling asleep with the “computing like electricity” analogies and the poorly framed value propositions from IBM (and from others but I’ve seen some really boring stuff from them…).

Now with computing at a dime an hour and with my own dedicated virtual machine (not some rented, pre-configured, job manager, one-size-fits-no-one, instance) connected to cheap on-demand storage and you have the ultimate swiss-army knife. Read more »