Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for August 21st through August 27th:

• Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Ubiquity - An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
• An Army of Solipsists » Blog Archive » High Performance Grails - A nice description of the steps to improve the performance of a Grails based web application using the techniques described in YSlow
• ElasticVapor :: Life in the Cloud: The Standardized Cloud - The need for a distributed and optimized virtual network is an important aspect in any multi-cloud deployment. One potential direction could be to explore the use of VPN or VDE technologies. My preference would be to use VDE, (Virtual Distributed Ethernet). A quick refresher, a VPN is a way to connect one or more remote computers to a protected network, generally tunnelling the traffic through another network. VDE implements a virtual ethernet in all its aspects, virtual switches, virtual cables. A VDE can also be used to create a VPN.

  VDE interconnects real computers running (through a tap interface), virtual machines as well as the other networking interfaces through a common open framework. VDE supports heterogeneous virtual machines running on different hosting computers and could be the ideal starting point. Network shaping and optimization may also play an important role in the ability to bridge two or cloud resources.