** UnhandledExceptionEventHandler :: OFFICIAL LC / CHATTER THREAD **

[sdturner02]

Recently I got annoyed with the plugin that I was using for handling AJAX file uploads so I started looking for a new one. I wanted one that:

-Uses XHR uploads in compatible browsers with a fallback to the hidden iframe method for IE/old browsers
-Is lightweight and not bloated with useless features
-Doesn't require external dependencies
-Doesn't use Flash
-Easily customizable
-Can handle JSON and javascript returned from the server

After a couple hours of searching I gave up and decided to write it myself. It occurred to me that this might be helpful to someone else, so I put it on GitHub:

http://github.com/sdturner02/Simple-Ajax-Uploader

If you need a very flexible, easy to use ajax uploader, check it out.

[MrWooster]

Google have launched their cloud computing platform

http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html

[gaming_mouse]

anyone use asana?

just found it recently and it takes such a giant dump all over basecamp that i can't even access my basecamp account because it is so buried in an avalanche of poo and i realize now this is a very good thing.

fyi guys.

[gaming_mouse]

Originally Posted by MrWooster

Google have launched their cloud computing platform

http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html

so how does this work? let's say i want to run some java simulations on it -- is that possible?

[sng_jason]

Originally Posted by MrWooster

Google have launched their cloud computing platform

http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html

Will they be inserting personalized ads into the output based on the data you're crunching?

[jjshabado]

Originally Posted by sylar

just wanted to pop-in and say: Goddammit, I love Pig/Hadoop! what a joy to work with.

+1

What are you doing?

[MrWooster]

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

so how does this work? let's say i want to run some java simulations on it -- is that possible?

I am assuming its going to be similar to an AWS setup. You just spin up server instances and run whatever you want on them.

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

anyone use asana?

just found it recently and it takes such a giant dump all over basecamp that i can't even access my basecamp account because it is so buried in an avalanche of poo and i realize now this is a very good thing.

fyi guys.

We have just started using it at work, so far I like it.

[gaming_mouse]

Originally Posted by MrWooster

I am assuming its going to be similar to an AWS setup. You just spin up server instances and run whatever you want on them.

so is it just a straight competitor to AWS? or are the cpus much more powerful or something?

[MrWooster]

I believe its a straight competitor... but I could be wrong.

[tyler_cracker]

g_m,

let's put it this way: if you think amazon has a lot of servers, imagine how many google has.

[jjshabado]

Huh, I kind of thought Amazon would have more, but I guess Google probably does have more. I don't think it would be by a ridiculous margin though.

[NoahSD]

Originally Posted by jjshabado

Huh, I kind of thought Amazon would have more, but I guess Google probably does have more. I don't think it would be by a ridiculous margin though.

Huh? Google catalogs huge swaths of the internet, and a significant percent of actual internet bandwidth is coming from Google's servers. 6% and increasing in 2010, actually: http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2010/1...raffic-record/ .

Amazon catalogs a bunch of products and runs a website. They also have a cloud computing service. That's nowhere near as computation-intensive as what Google does.

[jjshabado]

Originally Posted by NoahSD

Huh? Google catalogs huge swaths of the internet, and a significant percent of actual internet bandwidth is coming from Google's servers. 6% and increasing in 2010, actually: http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2010/1...raffic-record/ .

Amazon catalogs a bunch of products and runs a website. They also have a cloud computing service. That's nowhere near as computation-intensive as what Google does.

Lol, that's a hell of a sentence to just throw in there. AWS is a huge portion of "The Cloud".

I'd be surprised if Google was even 2x bigger than Amazon.

[jjshabado]

Looks like it's hard to get numbers. Guesses for Google seem to put them between the 1-2 million mark now (hell of a range...). Amazon seems to have about .5 million for EC2 and I'd guess a hundred thousand or two more for other things.

Edit: Yeah, yeah - these numbers are super rough and based off of about 10 minutes of searching. But probably good enough for a LC thread of 2+2.

[NoahSD]

I can't prove it because both companies keep that info secret (according to my Googling), but I'd be amazed if Google weren't much bigger than twice Amazon. AWS is obviously very computationally intensive per user, but it's only got on the order of millions of users (had 330k people signed up in June 2007), so maybe on the order of hundreds of thousands of active users.

Google has billions of active users, and it provides a ton of different products to them. Plus, Google attempts to map the entire internet--That's an insanely ambitious task that is incredibly computationally intensive.

Edit: (Posted before I saw your latest post) What unit is that in? I would think we should be measuring in flops or hertz here.