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Application Development and Operations Under One Roof
I have always seen a huge disconnect between development and operations when it comes to building and deploying applications. It’s typical for an application to be built on a single development server and to be handed off to operations to … Continue reading
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Tagged application development, cloud applications, highly available, scalable, SOA
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Latest Amazon Outage and Designing for Failure
Folks, I am getting really tired or people bashing the Cloud by saying things like “Amazon’s outage in third day: debate over cloud computing’s future begins”. People need to understand that the Cloud is not some magical place you put … Continue reading
The Art of Capacity Planning
I just got through reading “The Art of Capacity Planning” by John Allspaw. He is one of the guys that designs and maintains systems for Flickr. This is someone who designed geographically dispersed systems and faced real capacity problems at … Continue reading
Amazon CloudFront
I have been setting up CloudFront CDN to serve static content for client’s websites. CloudFront is a CDN service provided by Amazon and is very easy to setup. Most CDN providers like Akamai, Limelight and Edgecast require you to sign … Continue reading
Cloud Application Architectures
I just finished reading “Cloud Application Architectures” by George Reese. I think it’s good reading for folks that are just getting into cloud computing, but are somewhat technically savvy around systems engineering. The book is focused on AWS, as its the prevalent … Continue reading
Amazon RDS is pretty cool!
I was playing around with Amazon RDS today. It’s a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. In other words Amazon manages MySQL on the server level and you … Continue reading
