When I picked the title for my recent series, "What's the time, Mister Cloud?", I originally had in mind an homage to the children's game "What's the time, Mister Wolf?" 🐺 When reviewing my search analytics, I found that some people are coming to...
Contents It's About Time Prerequisites What is time synchronisation? Why should you care? What is good or bad, anyway? Technical terms Looking at time Frequency - an accurate clock Frequency - a clock which runs fast, consistently Frequency - a...
Contents Computer Timekeeping Time zones Types of clocks Hardware clocks Real Time Clock (RTC) System clock Clocks in action Bare metal Virtual machines Containers Time sync standards Network Time Protocol (NTP) NTP implementations NTP in action...
Contents The Part about Mister Cloud! AWS Services in scope NTP in AWS: initial configuration NTP in AWS: adjusting the defaults Which NTP servers? When is a second not a second? Leap second smearing Azure Services in scope NTP in Azure Local PTP...
I happened across this post on Infoworld today which is more than a year old, but still highly relevant to many organisations. The con that is cloud computing will continue to take over traditional IT departments until organisations realise the...
"Cloud computing was built for suckers by hustlers." -- Ted Dziuba