We’ve been doing a lot of interviewing lately, looking for developers, QA folk and deployment engineers. We’ve looked at hundreds (if not thousands) of resumes, performed numerous phone and live interviews but made only a handful of offers. It’s been difficult to find people with the skills that we’re looking for. Likewise Software is in…

In my last post I bemoaned that current efforts around cloud computing are pretty primitive. I closed with a comment that I had some thoughts about what a true cloud computing platform should look like. This post goes into that topic, albeit yet at a high-level. I think that a cloud operating system (let’s call…

I’ve been reading a lot of references to the coming of age of cloud computing. The more I read the more I am disappointed. In many cases, for example Amazon’s EC2, cloud computing seems like marketing-speak for “an easy way to rent virtual machines.” Amazon gives you some Web services that let you on-the-fly, allocate…