However, a source familiar with Dropbox’s current strategy said the company lately has been moving more of its IT infrastructure away from AWS and onto its own turf. There are now 10,000 servers in Dropbox facilities running loads that had been on Amazon EC2, although it’s not clear what percentage of Dropbox’s computing requirements that represents. Dropbox is currently storing data both in its own data centers and on Amazon S3 until the end of the year, this source said.

AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing (AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing (Barb Darrow/Gigaom))

We all use the same type of data center, same type of hardware more or less, there’s definitely margin on the cogs of operating those goods.

SHOCK and AWS: The fall of Amazon’s deflationary cloud

In the latest The New Stack Podcast, I talk with Alex while he’s on the show floor. We talk about SAP, Microsoft and open source, OSCON, and then talk with Bitnami’s Erica Brescia who has interesting things to say, among other things. about Azure use rising.

(Source: http://thenewstack.io/)

Apple paid out $5bn to developers in H1: Google $5bn in the last 12 months.

— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) July 22, 2014

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I’m guessing from quarterly calls.

When looking to split a large application into parts, often management focuses on the technology layer, leading to UI teams, server-side logic teams, and database teams. When teams are separated along these lines, even simple changes can lead to a cross-team project taking time and budgetary approval. A smart team will optimise around this and plump for the lesser of two evils - just force the logic into whichever application they have access to. Logic everywhere in other words. This is an example of Conway’s Law in action.

From Martin Fowler and James Lewis piece on Microservices

There are different divisions within an enterprise that want private cloud, says Cantrill. “A common trend we’re seeing is the mobile group in a company. Mobile groups have the budget, charter, and it’s all greenfield.”

Joyent: SmartDataCenter is Better Cloud for Enterprise than OpenStack

We would spend weeks rewriting systems, an eternity in startup-time, just because a cloud server with 8 gigabytes of RAM was falling over.

Putting Teeth in Our Public Cloud

Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of allowing software to take charge of our jobs and our lives. Drawing on history and philosophy, poetry and science, he makes a compelling case that the dominant Silicon Valley ethic is sapping our skills and narrowing our horizons.

Blurb from Nicholas Carr’s upcoming book, The Glass Cage