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cloudpunchr

  1. Finalizing new version of the website. Dreamweaver at first was a little odd to use, I am more comfortable with it now.
  2. Getting ready to launch some tests for our Beta customer. Things are looking good
  3. Just took a picture with Mark Hamill. My son (who is the biggest Star Wars fan) will be very impressed. http://twitpic.com/kkbgs
  4. Back to work now. Building a test scenario with 1M concurrent users and close to real-time aggregation. Should be interesting
  5. Finished strategy meeting and roadmap planning. SO excited about where we're going with this. Far more reaching than cloud stress testing!
  6. Working on EC2 resource re-utilization algorithm. Should help keeping the costs down. Why release an instance if you can reuse it??
  7. Back in Dallas after techcrunch50. The show was awesome, we got great feedback. Now the work continues. Going for the final push
  8. @Scobleizer we're in the DemoPit area, would love to show you what we do. Please stop by. Cloud-based stress testing. Look for CloudPuncher
  9. We launched our site today at TechCrunch50! Beta registration is open. Check out http://www.cloudpuncher.com
  10. A cup of nespresso gets the morning started like nothing else.
  11. We're almost there. Now going through some last minute website changes.
  12. real Hadoop log message: "TaskTracker at 'COMPUTERNAME' turned 'flaky'". WTF??!!
  13. Apparently Amazon had a problem with slower than usual EC2 instance shutdown times resulting in overages for me. Problem is fixed now. FTW!
  14. @ShlomoSwidler Not with Elastic MapReduce. Check with the AWS Console. You issue a shutdown - all jobs are cancelled right away.
  15. @ShlomoSwidler To clarify, I am talking about EMR instances. As soon as shutdown is issued, all jobs are cancelled. So nothing is running
  16. @ShlomoSwidler I disagree. I do not mind paying for a full hour. But if shutdown takes 7-10 min and session runs over 1 hr, that's not right
  17. Why does AWS charge for the time it takes to bring an EC2 box down? If I stop at 58min, and it takes 5min to stop, I should pay for only 1hr
  18. @cloudberryman Yes! I didn't realize I could do that :) Thank you.
  19. @cloudberryman Feature suggestion: I often copy files from S3 into the local drive just to view it. It'd be cool to do right-click > View
  20. I do not know what we'd do without CloudBerry Explorer. It is a must have tool if you're working with S3.