The King of Marvin Gardens on dvd
It’s very good to read about the need for non-transparent
cloud from Werner. We have learned that most of the ‘location transparency’ promises and goals in distributed computing were actually harmful creating more pain than benefits. Transparency is nice idea but only until you hit the wall – whether you are a developer or operator or even customer.
Developers want tools to optimize application behavior. Operators need tools for cloud management and monitoring. They also need to do configuration, change, or financial management where the ‘cloud’ cannot be transparent. And finally, customers really should not care but only until problems occur (SLAs breaches etc.) – then they will want to look under the hood to understand what is going on.
Anyway, it is good to see the thought leaders going into the right direction!
