Ryan Barrett writes about IndieWeb projects, software engineering, Emacs, and web APIs, and has worked on App Engine.
HN links it for his collected software engineering quotes, old technical write-ups like mp3 sync prior art, and his privacy practices; commenters also note his IndieWeb ties.
The marketing for Azure makes more sense in light of you not having used any of the stuff you were promoting.
Nowhere do you mention any of your competitors, much less compare yourself to them. None of the "tracks" [Web Developers, Corporate Developers, ISVs, Systems Integrators, Business] had anything pertinent, and none of it was remotely useful to anyone to whom cloud computing was more than the cover story of the latest IT Drone Monthly. The copy is littered with grating faux pas, like: "multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and XML".
The only useful information I could find about the offering was from your competitors! -- http://snarfed.org/space/windows+azure+details
PS: use your hour-long edit window to correct your spelling and grammar mistakes
Thanks for sharing my site! As you say, I'm quite big with IndieWeb, and for readers there are quite a few other folks you'll want to see - https://snarfed.org/ https://tantek.com/ https://aaronparecki.com/ and https://www.barryfrost.com/ to name just a few.
If anyone is interested learning more about the IndieWeb, https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ is a transcript of a conference talk I gave on what the IndieWeb is
re the questions about replication across datacenters, see:
http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/TransactionsAcrossDatacenters.html
it discusses both app engine's approach and the underlying factors and tradeoffs that apply to any similar system.
for the executive summary, see slide 33 from:
http://snarfed.org/space/transactions_across_datacenters_io.html
Hijacking this thread to share other approaches to YouTube without YouTube. This site takes a YouTube URL, extracts the audio and adds a link to your personal podcast feed on huffduffer. It’s great for loading a bunch of interviews, lectures, and other things that don’t require the video into your podcast player.
https://snarfed.org/2015-03-07_huffduff-video
"synchronizing mp3 playback" (p4sync,) DECEMBER 29, 2002 UPDATED DECEMBER 30, 2017
https://snarfed.org/synchronizing_mp3_playback
Unfortunately, USPTO only searches it's own database for published prior art. It's up to everyone else to find and show prior published art (and/or explain obviousness) in order to invalidate a patent being used non-defensively.
Core Articles referenced. Skip the blog post
http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
http://snarfed.org/why_i_run_shells_inside_emacs
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4911.html