New Good Data Website!

Check out the new Good Data website.

Deadly iPhone screen

Now I know why one would want to set up multiple wake-up alarms for a single night. My "beloved" iPhone is the only device that we currently have at home capable of doing this. So it's Marimba, diapers, milk, burp. Twice every three hours. :-(

Ray has entered blogosphere!

Ray Light, the guy who sits next to me in Good Data has started blogging. I know that he will be damn good at it. You can start following him at http://www.collaborativeanalytics.com/.

Cloud Transparency

Radovan wrote a comment on Werner's article about cloud transparency. I agree that operators need monitoring and developers want to optimize their apps. However I don't understand how these needs relate to (location) transparency. I think that this is rather about functionality (e.g. OOTB performance and right management tools) that the cloud offers.

I see a little schizophrenia in the AWS messaging. "We (AWS) want developers to play with all nuts and bolts, optimize, monitor, and trace at the network packet level. And when the code jumps into our queuing, simple db, payment or whatever other high-level service then forget all transparency, close your eyes and cross your fingers." :-)

I think that different developers have different needs in terms of the right transparency level. IMO AWS is heavily used by web developers. I believe that particularly web developers will lean towards higher transparency, packaged high-level services and easy deployment.

Radovan, what do you think about the Google AppEngine?

Ema & Anna

Erika gave birth to Ema and Anna last Thursday. You can see few very bad quality (iPhone) photos of our newborns on my Flickr.

The Good Data Public Beta is Out!

Go to or website and sign up. And please remember, that we would love to hear from you via our GetSatisfaction forum. Please let us know what you think and help us to create vital community around our product. Thanks!

Good Data Beta is Close!

I just noticed this article. The UI screenshots are a bit outdated. Yep, 3 months are deep history in SaaS. :-)

Stay tuned, we are close to our first public beta release. Hopefully we will release the public beta next week. If you can't wait and promise me tons of feedback, let me know at zd at gooddata.com. Perhaps I can let you in sooner ;-)