TypePad outage December 20, 2005
Posted by James Webster in : web , add a commentAfter all the recent discussion in the blogosphere about the need for Web 2.0 companies (and indeed their customers) to give greater thought to the availability and scalability of their services, it appears the popular hosted blogging service TypePad has had a rather severe outage.
‘Hey, look Ma, we’re doing Web 2.0!’ December 9, 2005
Posted by James Webster in : web, software , add a commentWhilst discussing ‘Web 2.0′ over a beer with the ‘Extreme Dream Team’, I made the (unfashionably late) observation that ‘mashup’ is just Web 2.0 slang for what we used to call ‘integration’, back when B2B was cool. Therefore our current project, an enterprise integration system, could be described in an infinitely hipper fashion as a “Web 2.0 enterprise ’shmup”!
The Web 2.0 bubble; to be popped by outages? December 8, 2005
Posted by James Webster in : web , add a commentAfter recently hearing and posting about Fluxiom and DabbleDB I am wondering whether the Web 2.0 bubble is likely to be popped by one or more hosted services (take your pick; Basecamp, Backpack, Typepad, Salesforce, etc, etc) suffering a major outage. Or for that matter, a major loss of telecommunications infrastructure might cause many companies to lose access to the applications they need to keep their business running. How many users of Basecamp, for example, have a disaster recovery plan covering both short-term and long-term outages of this service?
“Disaster Recovery, its not just for big business anymore!”
Update: Jeremy Wright has blogged on the issue of scalability and availability as well.