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GAFAM: Smile, you offer your data

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:33:00 +0000

GAFAMs, they are everywhere, sometimes clearly visible, like when you go on Google, sometimes much less so, like for example Amazon which owns the IMDB site.

What are the GAFAMs?

I make this little point for those who don’t know what the GAFAMs are. What is commonly called GAFAM are none other than :

Google
Apple
Facebook
Amazon
Microsoft

These five companies now largely dominate the Internet, and it is very difficult to really do without them.

Is it really greener in the cloud?

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0000

“It’s greener on AWS”, I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this sentence at Amazon conferences.

Is this mantra that companies repeat to look cool true?

Ecology, the new spearhead of companies

Year after year, companies, and especially large groups, put forward their efforts always to be “greener”. Each company is, of course, more committed than its competitor. I wonder how we can still have problems related to pollution with so much commitment?

What if we figured the cloud is just another data center like any other?

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:54:58 +0000

I work daily on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure (AWS for short), and I’m thinking about the best way to implement new technical solutions on this platform.

Amazon, and the cloud in general, has brought an impressive freedom:

Deploy on tailor-made infrastructures
Bringing elasticity to infrastructures
Benefits from machines on demand

However, these new approaches to infrastructure have also brought their share of negatives.

Previously, to deploy an application in the data center, it was necessary to prepare and properly size its hosting before even starting any deployment, linked to the purchase of suitable hardware, or at least to a resource reservation that had to be amortized over several years.