Stu says stuffPartially-baked ideas and commentary on technology and society.Elastra- March 31, 2008 I've been quite busy this past month organizing a move of my girlfriend and I to San Francisco, but just a brief note for those that skipped my rather mysterious post on February 29th.... After 3.5 years at BEA, I've decided to jump to a new startup in the cloud computing space, called Elastra, as a lead architect of their product line. Today, Elastra provides the software to provision clustered, highly available MySQL, PostgreSQL, and EnterpriseDB on Amazon EC2. The vision is to take...http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000541.html So, let me get this straight...- March 19, 2008 From Joel, And Postel's "robustness" principle didn't really work.....Jon Postel should be honored for his enormous contributions to the invention of the Internet, and there is really no reason to fault him for the infamous robustness principle. 1981 is prehistoric. If you had told Postel that there would be 90 million untrained people, not engineers, creating web sites.... he would have understood that this is the wrong principle. So, that not everyone follows Postel's law means that Postel's.http://www.stucharlton.com/blog/archives/000540.html |