Trends in Cloud Architecture--A Discussion of Amazon's 21 Century Cloud Architecture Keynote

Summary
In this episode, Bett and Russ review trends in cloud architecture based on the Amazon's CTO's recent keynote at the re:Invent conference.

Reated links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW1lhU8n5So

A blog post Russ did on Public Cloud Trends for 2013.

A written review of Amazon' 2012 re:Invent Day 2 Keynote: Werner Vogels

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructure/amazons-vogels-challenges-it-rethink-app/240142928

In the podcast, we mentioned this blog post on how the real value of the cloud technology is in its ability to help us deal with changing requirements, and thereby, it permits us to innovate faster:
https://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/hidden-opportunities-of-the-cloud/

Books we mentioned:
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/60765/the-information-by-james-gleick

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers
http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052

Other:
Link to the upcoming Developing Cloud Services Symposium in Tampa that Bett mentioned:
http://sasicentral.com/

Gain Agility by Applying Lessons from Theatre -- Episode 2 -- 05 Dec 2012

Summary
Russ and Bett discuss how IT development teams can keep up with the rapid pace of change by leveraging lessons learned from other paradigms--in this case, from theatre.  Much of the inspiration for this particular podcast came from the book Artful Making, but clearly Bett, as an improv actor and IT architect, has drawn her own conclusions about how improvisational comedy can also provide useful lessons.

The Artful Making authors' web site:
http://artfulmaking.com/books/

A relevant blog post explaining the rules of improv comedy and how they can be applied by agile software teams:
http://pagilista.blogspot.com/2011/09/eleven-improv-commandments-for-agile.html

Related Links
The book Russ recommended: The Uside of Turbulence by Donald Sull (Chapter 8 is the most relevant)
Author's web site: http://www.donsull.com/
A good review: http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/10/06/the-upside-of-turbulence-by-donald-sull-recommended-management-reading-placing-new-ideas-and-old-ones-in-an-actionable-framework-a-book-review/

How Software Companies Die -by Orson Scott Card
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=DeveloperBees

Link to the upcoming Developing Cloud Services Symposium in Tampa that Bett mentioned in episode 1:
http://sasicentral.com/

Effects of Parallel Prototyping -- Episode 1 -- 28 Nov 2012

Summary
Russ and Bett discuss parallel protyping and related topics as inspired by a paper written at Standford University:
http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2010/parallel-prototyping/ParallelPrototyping2010.pdf

Related Links
Link to the upcoming Developing Cloud Services Symposium in Tampa that Bett mentioned:
http://sasicentral.com/

This is the link to the book that Bett recommended on Contextual Design:
http://www.amazon.com/Contextual-Design-Customer-Centered-Interactive-Technologies/dp/1558604111

The book by James o. Coplien that Russ recommended:
http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Architecture-Agile-Software-Development/dp/0470684208