Comments for SmugMug's Don MacAskill

Comment on SmugMug is on StackExchange! by Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:18:14 +0000

Don, what does it take for a company to be able to get a StackExchange?

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Why Large Enterprises Need Public Cloud Too | Andi Mann – Übergeek

Why Large Enterprises Need Public Cloud Too | Andi Mann – Übergeek — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:44:26 +0000

[...] your applications to survive extended catastrophic infrastructure failure; and some ongoing reliance on private infrastructure; you can achieve better uptime even from a limited 99.95% uptime guarantee. No, really – [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by SOAR! Blog » Blog Archive » Geek Love

SOAR! Blog » Blog Archive » Geek Love — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:18:44 +0000

[...] centers. In fact, if you really want to geek it out, read CEO & Chief Geek Don MacAskill’s most recent blog post about a major Amazon outage and how SmugMug survived with billions of your irreplacable [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Infostand:「クラウドは飛行機」？ Amazonの大規模障害で見えた企業の対応 | Kindaiti's Blog

Infostand:「クラウドは飛行機」？ Amazonの大規模障害で見えた企業の対応 | Kindaiti's Blog — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:32:36 +0000

[...] http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/ [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Did Amazon’s aggressive algorithms prevent customer data loss? | Simply Security

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:37:05 +0000

[...] to optimize the cost. Smugmug, the photo-sharing site that also survived this Amazon outage, published a blog. They both are excellent and like someone tweeted, it is always good to learn from the guys who [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Brian Wong

Brian Wong — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:46:48 +0000

Excellent post as usual, Don. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience with the rest of us!

Comment on Best AWS outage post yet by Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:39:35 +0000

Lots of good info in that article but I far prefer your no-drama way of writing. I like to know how to fix things, not be given a religious lecture.

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Cloudpocalypse continues into sixth day | RCR Unplugged

Cloudpocalypse continues into sixth day | RCR Unplugged — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:17:43 +0000

[...] quick to point fingers – mostly at Amazon. Popular photo storage and sharing website SmugMug issued a blog post in the following days explaining how they had built out their infrastructure with failure in mind, [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts

Designing For Failure: Some Key Facts — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:47:46 +0000

[...] How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse [...]

Comment on How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse by Amazon AWS outage – did the Cloud Fail? — munz & more

Amazon AWS outage – did the Cloud Fail? — munz & more — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:59:43 +0000

[...] get me wrong. I am big fan of George, not only because he is following me on twitter . He gave a podcast interview repeating that you need to design for the cloud by designing for failure instead of sticking with [...]