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		<title>DevOps != sneaky, reckless, or process-adverse hooligans</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2011/01/14/devops-sneaky-reckless-or-process-adverse-hooligans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operations has one primary mission above all else&#8230; uptime.  This often gets them labeled by the rest of the organization by names such as, &#8220;the brick wall&#8221;, &#8220;organization of &#8216;no&#8217;&#8221;, and a host of other names I won&#8217;t use on a PG blog.  With automation coming to IT operations teams are being asked to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Predictions about Cloud Computing for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk in 2010 about cloud computing you&#8217;d think the entire Internet was running on it.  We&#8217;re at the point now with cloud computing as we were in the late &#8217;80s through the mid-late &#8217;90s with networking.  Everyone can clearly see the benefits in cloud but the market is hyper fragmented as different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why OpenStack matters to me</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/12/11/why-openstack-matters-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to start off with an apology to everyone out there that over the past 9 months if I didn&#8217;t reply to your email, didn&#8217;t answer your phone call, or made your life less interesting by disappearing from Twitter and from sharing my thoughts on this blog.  I&#8217;ll be out, alive and available again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising isn&#8217;t the only business model for websites</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/03/07/advertising-isnt-the-only-business-model-for-websites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ad blocker]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A post by Ken Fisher at Ars Technica stirred up quite the hornet&#8217;s nest.  Brian Carper replied that, &#8220;Advertising is devastating to my well-being&#8221;.  Rob Sayre chimed in on the Mozilla Blog about, &#8220;Why Ad Blockers Work&#8221;.  All three of these were picked up by Hacker News and became some of the most commented threads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public clouds and their features, followed by the future of cloud computing hardware</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to break this post up into two sections, the first will discuss public clouds and their features focused on advanced networking as an example.  The second portion will look at the future of cloud computing hardware &#8212; both networking and computing. Public Clouds and Feature Selection A discussion started on Twitter today after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every developer should learn the OSI model</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/18/every-developer-should-learn-the-osi-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The OSI model is a great way to learn to layered design so components can be refactored or replaced without a complete system redesign.   This will also allow for a project to be broken up into separate teams in the future as they&#8217;ll have a clear understanding of their upstream and downstream requirements.  Beyond being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Availability is a fundamental design concept</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/10/03/availability-is-a-fundamental-design-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today a conversation on Twitter with Christopher Hoff (@Beaker), James Watters (@wattersjames), George Reese (@georgereese), Benjamin Black (@benjaminblack), and Shlomo Swidler (@ShlomoSwidler) discussed how many people seem to assume that because clouds can scale and rapidly provision servers that they&#8217;re always available and that because of this availability doesn&#8217;t have to be a fundamental [...]]]></description>
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