Felipe Oliveira01/07/12
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As I mentioned in a past article, Why Did I Fall in Love with Play! Framework?, I was the tech lead for a few real estate deployments for Fannie Mae, HUD, Foreclosure.com, etc; as you know, real estate is all about LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!
I’m on...
Tom O'connor01/06/12
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It has recently been brought to my attention that a number of users
of cloud-based hosting services tend to use an "integrated" backup
solution provided by the cloud host. This is probably some form of
snapshot-based backup of a server's...
Eric Berg01/06/12
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The calendar’s switched over, which means it’s that time of year
again: full work weeks and prediction pieces for where cloud computing’s
headed in the coming year. A few predictions caught our eye:
Picking up on the security threats to businesses,...
Kin Lane01/05/12
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To kick-off my role as API Evangelist at CityGrid, I took a quick walk through the world of location and places API.
The CityGrid API
centers around places API which provides rich local business data via a
RESTful API. So...
Mitch Pronschinske01/05/12
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This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every
major topical area. These Cloud articles were chosen based popularity and quality of
content.Top Cloud articles of 20115 Key Events in the history of Cloud ComputingSQL vs NoSQL in the...
Brian Gracely01/04/12
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During our year-end show for The Cloudcast (.net), my co-host Aaron Delp suggested
that we should enhance the podcast by adding more whiteboard videos. I
completely agree with him. Far too often, our discussions get overly
technical and it can be...
Ben Kepes01/04/12
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It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their
“traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One
company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure).
In its home market...
Brian Swan01/04/12
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To start the new year off, I’d like to follow up on a couple of posts I wrote last month: Thoughts on Testing OSS Applications in Windows Azure and Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure.
In this post, I’ll show you how to deploy your PHPUnit tests with your...
Bradley Holt01/02/12
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Recently at a Burlington, Vermont PHP Users Group meeting I gave a presentation on Load Balancing with Apache:
Load Balancing with Apache View more presentations from Bradley Holt I’ve posted the example configuration files for...
Gunnar Peipman01/01/12
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You may get the following error when deploying your web application from Visual Studio to Windows Azure using WebDeploy:
Remote agent could not be contacted. Make sure the remote agent service is installed and started on the target computer. An unsupported...
John Blanco01/01/12
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A friend and co-worker of mine, Tony Hillerson,
was once scheduled to rebuild a backend system for a client of ours.
His idea was to replace our tiny little PHP friend with a Heroku implementation. He described it as Rails on a cloud and I kept it in...
Ofir Nachmani01/01/12
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Six years ago I led Zarathustra as the company and product manager.
We started this new company to help SMB companies to manage their sales,
operations and accounting in one system. I was young and handsome but
with not a lot of experience in regards to...
Eric Berg12/31/11
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As 2011 comes to a close, it’s clear that cloud computing will soon
be ubiquitous across the enterprise. As IT departments adopt the
technology, they must also adapt their roles and responsibilities in
order to manage the business’ cloud services...
Ben Kepes12/31/11
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In a recent CloudU report
we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing
qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the
Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with
the CloudU...
Moshe Kaplan12/30/11
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An old customer was facing a major issue. They just expanded their
service from a local shop to a global "follow the sun" service,
providing SaaS to worldwide customers.
Their MySQL server were the finest, and their procedures are the same,...
Liran Zelkha12/29/11
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Recently some customers running on Amazon EC2 asked me how to configure a HA environment for their ScaleBase instance.
For instance, let’s look at the following architecture:
To ensure that Scalebase is not a single point of failure, several
ScaleBase...
John Esposito12/29/11
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In this video, David Davis (cool name, esp. on a qwerty keyboard) walks through installation and setup of the VMWare vCloud Connector, from download through node deployment and cloud administration.
John Esposito12/28/11
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A long time ago, in a 32-bit-world far, far away, we ran out of storage space quickly, and kept our closets clean as a result. Lots of the garbage really was garbage, too -- my small non-profit had absolutely no need for year-old log files, for example -- so...
Jeff Dickey12/28/11
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Every web project starts out with the best intentions, running
locally, unit testing, easy deployments, provisioning of servers. As a
project moves on, some of these niceties drop by the wayside,
specifically: The ability to run locally.
Never let...
Kin Lane12/26/11
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I took a walk through what I am calling the locations and places API
landscape today. Most of these APIs I’m familiar with, but as the
CityGrid API Evangelist, I’m getting an opportunity to immerse myself
into this new local, social mobile...
Brian Gracely12/25/11
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Our Favorite Things from 2011:
Amazed that anybody listens to the show - growing listener base Show accomplished it’s goal of introducing us to really interesting people Stuff that Confuses Us:
All the different ways to do Networking for...
John Esposito12/23/11
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In this video, the CloudFoundry team walks through the whole process of cloud app deployment, from choosing a PaaS to specific tools for deployment (Eclipse, command line tools).Full contents of the 34-minute video, from the official agenda:The PaaS landscape...
John Esposito12/23/11
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Server-side JavaScript, what server? says the naive cloud user. But why not take advantage of server-side JavaScript's power, even while running on the cloud?It's not hard, in principle: there's a buildpack for that, or rather for running Node.js apps on...
Karthikeyan Anb...12/22/11
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Microsoft has recently released the SQL Azure Q4 2011 changes. Previously
in October at the PASS conference we heard about the SQL Azure Q4 release
for 2011 and now the release is live with much enhanced features on
scalability, monitoring, and...
Eric Berg12/22/11
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Before last week, chances are you’d probably never heard of iBahn,
a Salt Lake City-based company that provides Internet services to hotel
chains such as Marriott International Inc. Last week, however, the
company suffered a disconcerting security...
