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		<title>Open Compute and the future of infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2012/02/24/open-compute-and-the-future-of-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard about it yet Facebook is not only helping us all stay in contact with friends and share our life experiences.  They&#8217;re also perhaps doing something even more influential.  They started the Open Compute Project in 2011 and in October at the 3rd event announced the Open Compute Foundation that my employer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It would be nice, but cloud doesn&#8217;t have to be &#8220;interoperable&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2011/07/29/it-would-be-nice-but-cloud-doesnt-have-to-be-interoperable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure: If you&#8217;re coming straight here you may not know work for Rackspace Hosting and I&#8217;ve been involved with OpenStack since the inception of the project.  The opinions on this blog are my personal ones, not those of my employer. This post is an assessment, a thought.  I don&#8217;t really explore the meaning or outcomes [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2011/01/14/devops-sneaky-reckless-or-process-adverse-hooligans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[continuous integration]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/12/27/three-predictions-about-cloud-computing-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/12/27/three-predictions-about-cloud-computing-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/?p=209</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/12/11/why-openstack-matters-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bretpiatt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud hosting]]></category>
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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>How to tell the difference between &#8220;cloud&#8221; and &#8220;virtualization&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-cloud-and-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people seem to think &#8220;cloud&#8221; is just off-premise &#8220;virtualization&#8221;.  Cloud comes in a few flavors and I&#8217;ll argue that you can have &#8220;private cloud&#8221; either hosted off-premise in a provider&#8217;s facility or in your own.  The fundamental difference between cloud and virtualization is the goal of cloud is to automate provisioning (this applies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing elementary education for the 21st century</title>
		<link>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/reinventing-elementary-education-for-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2010/02/07/reinventing-elementary-education-for-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bret Piatt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll come right out and give my theory up front and then explain why&#8230; We need to stop teaching young children &#8220;facts&#8221; and we need to start teaching them how to learn.  The only reason we teach young children &#8220;facts&#8221; is to shape their world view into what we want it to be while their [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/2009/12/20/public-clouds-and-their-features-followed-by-the-future-of-cloud-computing-hardware/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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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