Simon Willison's Weblog: aral-balkanhttp://simonwillison.net/2009-07-28T12:39:47+00:00Simon WillisonMy Sys-Con Nightmare2009-07-28T12:39:47+00:002009-07-28T12:39:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/28/syscon/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://aralbalkan.com/2284">My Sys-Con Nightmare</a></strong></p>
This is just ridiculous. Don’t speak at or attend Sys-Con conferences (which include AJAXWorld, the Cloud Computing Expo and Ajax in the Cloud), don’t write for or buy their journals (including AJAXWorld Magazine, JDJ and .NET Developer’s Journal), and don’t visit or advertise on any of their sites.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ajaxworld">ajaxworld</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aral-balkan">aral-balkan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/boycott">boycott</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/syscon">syscon</a></p>
Quoting Aral Balkan2009-01-08T18:10:31+00:002009-01-08T18:10:31+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/commodity/#atom-tag
<blockquote cite="http://aralbalkan.com/1864"><p>The simple truth is that in the age of Web 2.0/3.0, in the era of cloud and utility computing, the application server is a commodity. A commercial, proprietary app server simply cannot survive in this environment anywhere outside the lethargic, soft-padded walls of the enterprise.</p></blockquote>
<p class="cite">— <a href="http://aralbalkan.com/1864">Aral Balkan</a></p>
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/appservers">appservers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aral-balkan">aral-balkan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coldfusion">coldfusion</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/commoditisation">commoditisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/enterprise">enterprise</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a></p>
Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it2008-10-03T22:00:43+00:002008-10-03T22:00:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/3/google/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://aralbalkan.com/1504">Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it</a></strong></p>
Aral Balkan describes a number of critical issues with App Engine. If you’re considering building something serious on it you need to read this article; I’ve run in to several of these problems myself just running toy projects on the platform. Here’s hoping they get addressed in the near future.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aral-balkan">aral-balkan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine">google-app-engine</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scalability">scalability</a></p>
We haven't changed the name of the conference to "Over Quota"2008-09-03T13:37:50+00:002008-09-03T13:37:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/3/we/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://aralbalkan.com/1471">We haven't changed the name of the conference to "Over Quota"</a></strong></p>
Aral is having intermittent App Engine quota problems, which are proving impossible to debug. I had a similar problem with an App Engine app a while ago—the quota / debugging story really needs fixing.
<p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aral-balkan">aral-balkan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine">google-app-engine</a></p>