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Getting started with OpenStack

OpenStack is a collection of open source software projects that enterprises/service providers

0 replies - 2402 views - 02/02/12 by Singaram Subramanian in Articles

EC2 = Easy Cloud 2.0? Getting started with the Amazon Cloud

If you are command line centric guy like me and you are on Ubuntu this post is for you.Getting starting with Amazon was a pain for me although once you understand the basics it is relativly easy. BTW: there are of course also other cloud systems like...

2 replies - 2078 views - 12/23/11 by Peter Karich in Articles

Clever Singletons on the Grid

When working in distributed environment often you need to have a consistent local state per grid node that is reused between various job executions. For example, what if multiple jobs require database connection pool for their execution - how do they get...

0 replies - 2043 views - 08/16/11 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

Google+ Beats Apple iCloud for Developers Attention

According to Appcelerator's latest developer survey, Google+ will have more impact on mobile growth than any other recent technology announcement, including Apple's iCloud. Throughout the report, it's clear that Google+ has caught the imagination of software...

0 replies - 3184 views - 08/03/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Cool GridGain Transaction Example

I never planned to create an example like this, but one of the users in our community forums pushed me to do it. Basically the user was complaining that he gets some deadlock behavior on the grid when he reads and updates the same object from cache on...

0 replies - 2593 views - 06/01/11 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

The Personal Cloud

Cédric Beust talks about moving his music to the Amazon cloud: This move got me to step back and look at the bigger picture, and I realized the the Cloud had been slowly but steadily sneaking up on me these past years. I never really noticed it and I...

0 replies - 2230 views - 05/11/11 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

A cloud? More like a black hole

I have been wanting to put my music in the cloud for a very long time.

0 replies - 2390 views - 05/11/11 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Sitting on the cloud with Nikita Ivanov

JetBrains has 10 years of history in the rearview mirror. You don’t make it that long without listening to the people that make you successful, your customers. Today, the depth and scope of work being accomplished using JetBrains products is truly inspiring...

0 replies - 6820 views - 05/02/11 by Václav Pech in Articles

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

There has been quite a bit of press coverage regarding the  outage at Amazon this week.  Much of this coverage has focused on how the outage has brought down many popular web sites such as Reddit, Quora and Foursquare.  The point that seems to be...

1 replies - 3284 views - 04/26/11 by Ted Theodoropoulos in Articles

Asynchronous Functional APIs in Java

The major limitation of java.util.concurrent.Future class is lack of a good way to listen to future completion asynchronously. Even though Java futures are asynchronous in nature and meant to eliminate synchronous waits when not needed, the only way to...

2 replies - 3985 views - 04/21/11 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

Introducing AppDynamics - Application Management for the Cloud Generation

This post is just a discovery point of a great tool named AppDynamics, therefore major content is taken from the official site. AppDynamics does not reinvent the wheel, but it brings some cool stuff into application performance management solutions. First,...

3 replies - 2906 views - 03/31/11 by Constantin Alin in Articles

Querying Cached Data - Paradigm Shift

Why would you ever query cached data if you can query your persistent store, such as database? Well, the answer is the same as for accessing data by key from cache vs. getting it from database - for performance and scalability. However, querying cache is...

0 replies - 3202 views - 03/30/11 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

The Cloud: What it is and What it ain't

Cloud computing is a software engineering revolution. But what about all that buzz: are you excited, confused or annoyed? The cloud is first and foremost a blend of ideological and technological movements converging at the right place and time (which makes it...

4 replies - 4635 views - 01/27/11 by Nick Maiorano in Articles

A programmer on the cloud

As a programmer, I hate duplication. But moving between different workstations, or even between a netbook and my primary computer, requires me to share data such as documents, code, PDF files and so on.

4 replies - 6974 views - 01/06/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles