Infrastructure

Will SPDY Make the Internet Faster?

Right now, Google is working on an application-layer protocol aimed at making web pages download twice as fast.  Google revealed the early-stage research on...

5 replies - 2425 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Dynamic SOA and BPM

After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed....

0 replies - 910 views - 11/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 849 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 479 views - 09/29/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 666 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...

0 replies - 890 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1229 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

The datacenter as a programmable entity

This is an exciting time for those who want to shrink the computer. They are having a field day playing with devices powered by Android, the iPhone’s Cocoa,...

0 replies - 833 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud Computing Platform Comparison: (part 1)

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 1763 views - 12/23/08 by riho in Articles

Amazon Web Services

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 2142 views - 11/24/08 by riho in Articles

A Simple Clustered Task Distribution System

This article will introduce the basic concepts of JGroups and then implement a task distribution system (on top of JGroups), where tasks can be placed into the...

4 replies - 19161 views - 10/06/08 by Bela Ban in Articles

A Look Inside the JBoss Microcontainer, Part I -- Component Models

Looking at the current state of Java, we can see that POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) rule the land yet again. Their dominance stretches from enterprise...

26 replies - 16629 views - 10/01/08 by alesj in Articles

Software Rhythm Part 1: The Opening

I’ve been thinking about doing a series of posts on this for a while. For some reason I’m inspired to write it now. I’ve been involved in a number of...

1 replies - 5696 views - 09/10/08 by Alex Miller in News

Availability Enlightenment

The air in the room was still and slightly cool, some might complain too cool. Sitting near the window, providing light filtered by vertical shades partially...

1 replies - 985 views - 08/20/08 by driveawedge in News

Rapid Application Development for Content-Rich Applications

0 replies - 3448 views - 07/29/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Whitepapers