Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

Baby steps towards world domination? Perhaps.

One Book, Many Readings via Daring Fireball

Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books? Christian Swinehart does, and has created some incredible data visualizations describing their structures.

HP to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion

The first network card I ever bought was a 3com.

Apple Discontinues ZFS Project

Apple has replaced its ZFS project page with a notice that ‘The ZFS project has been discontinued.

All signs point to licensing issues being the primary reason for Apple to cease development on the project. It is an unfortunate loss because ZFS was one of the more promising things I wanted to see included in MacOS X. Some have pointed out that

Google Envisions 10 Million Servers

Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future.

The goal for Google in this case is to dynamically adapt to the requirements of their workloads. It sounds great in theory. Ten million servers is an incredible number of machines to manage, without some very sophisticated software it would be quite a difficult task. If they can pull it off there are numerous benefits.

…including a “follow the moon” strategy which takes advantage of lower costs for power and cooling during overnight hours. In this scenario, virtualized workloads are shifted across data centers in different time zones to capture savings from off-peak utility rates.

In increasingly large and complex environments it is clear that sophisticated automation will be required to address the inherent challenges in managing large numbers of servers and applications.