Money as Motivator

"When tasks get more complicated, when it requires some coceptual, creative thinking, the best use of money as a motivator, is simply to pay people enough to take the money issue out of the table"

Define "Inmense": Windows Azure Project

We as last mile developers usually forget the huge amount of work and complexity laying behind the APIs of services and products we consume.

This presentation about the Windows Azure project, gives a very good picture of the titanic efforts behind this kind of services.

A figure: 10 football fields surface of datacenter.

Windows Azure Platform