There is an interesting article on TechCrunch, an unfiltered (presumably) insight of a London’s VC expert that claims European start-ups are not working hard enough as their Silicon Valley’s counterparts. The writer adds that in US is easier to find talented workforce than in the EU; he explains this fact  as the consequence of our [...]

So, I found this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”. Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on Cloud. You can [...]

Warning: this material is outdated, a set of empirical tests was under works but never saw the light It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake.. This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test bench on an Amazon RDS machine. The problem is that mysqlslap [...]