Top Appistry Blog Posts of 2008

Ok, I’ll admit that this is a bit of a copycat post, but I’ve seen a bunch of these around and was inspired to pull together the Appistry version. So I pulled up analytics and here we are: the top ten Appistry blog posts of 2008.

1. The Blind Men and the Cloud, by Sam
   In this post I unveiled the first, if not only, poem about cloud computing. It continues to be a popular one.
2. Amazon S3 Still Limping & the Limits of Clouds, by Bob
   Bob gave Amazon his famous “Mad Kitty” for the big S3 outage back in February. Interesting commentary on when we can and cannot count on clouds.
3. Is Your Code Cloud-Ready and Multi-Core Friendly? (Part 1): Introduction, by Guerry
   In the first of what proved to be a very popular series, Guerry introduced the five attributes of cloud-ready code.
4. Is Your Code Cloud-Ready and Multi-Core Friendly? (Part  4): Idempotence, by Guerry
   Part four of Guerry’s series explores idempotence, which is a powerful software attribute, not a dysfunction.
5. Parallelism : Is Your Code Cloud-Ready and Multi-Core Friendly? (Part 5), by Guerry
   Parallel code isn’t just for academics. Guerry explores the relationship between cloud computing, multi-core processors and parallelism in this post.
6. Is Your Code Cloud-Ready and Multi-Core Friendly? (Part 3): Statelessness, by Guerry
   Discussions of state and statelessness tend to be fraught with confusion and semantic arguments. Guerry does a great job cutting through the noise in this post and lays out the relationship between statelessness and scalability in the clouds.
7. Is Your Code Cloud-Ready and Multi-Core Friendly? (Part  2): Atomicity, by Guerry
   Atomicity is not just for transactions. Here Guerry discusses the role of atomicity in your cloud applications.
8. Cloud Taxonomy: Applications, Platform, Infrastructure, by Sam
   In this recent post I discussed the emerging “Cloud Pyramid,” which organizes types of cloud environments into Application, Platform and Infrastructure.
9. Meltdown 2008, Part 1 – How I Learned to Love Chaos, by Bob
   Written in the early days of last year’s financial meltdown, this article shared Bob’s perspective as an “entpreneureus serialius.”
10. You Can’t Draw a Box Around a Cloud, by Guerry
    In one of my favorite posts Guerry lays out the case for private clouds.

Congratulations to Guerry for authoring six, yes six (!), of the top ten most popular posts on Appistry Blogs (as ranked by pageviews). I’m certainly looking forward to many more great posts from him and all the rest of the bloggers here.