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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...

4 replies - 5823 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...

4 replies - 8804 views - 01/06/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Windows Azure SDK for PHP

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Interoperability, this open source project is an effort bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open...

0 replies - 9269 views - 10/15/10 by Nitin Bharti in Uncategorized

Johnson: vFabric Delivers the Promise of VMware's Spring Acquisition

It didn't take VMware's SpringSource division long to integrate and wrap up some of their most recently acquired technologies into a bundling called...

1 replies - 7002 views - 08/31/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

ESB Performance Pitfalls

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is at the heart of many Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, a technology that is being widely adopted...

2 replies - 12300 views - 08/05/10 by Martin Vecera in Articles

What NoSQL Store Should I Use? The Right Tool for Your Use Case

As NoSQL data models continue to prove their worth in high-profile web properties and enterprise settings, developers and architects need a basic framework...

6 replies - 23290 views - 07/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Graph Processing in Map Reduce

In my previous post about Google's Pregel model, a general pattern of parallel graph processing can be expressed as multiple iterations of processing...

1 replies - 5512 views - 07/21/10 by Ricky Ho in Articles

ZooKeeper Primer

Distributed collaborative applications involve a set of processes or agents interacting with one another to accomplish a common goal. They execute on Wide Area...

0 replies - 13707 views - 06/14/10 by Animesh Kumar in Articles

XAP 7.1 Adds Spring 3.x, Elastic Middleware, and Improved Querying Support

Computing hardware and networking have been improving exponentially over the last few decades, but when DZone spoke with Uri Cohen, the XAP product manager at...

0 replies - 7681 views - 04/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Comparison of the Grid/Cloud Computing Frameworks (Hadoop, GridGain, Hazelcast, DAC) - Part II

What would happen, if 60% of your cloud suddenly goes down? Can you rely on the 'fail-over' capabilities of the framework of your choice? What about...

3 replies - 22368 views - 03/19/10 by Krystian Lider in Articles

Developing and Deploying Java on Middleware and in the Cloud: Rise of the Virtual Appliance?

From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, the idea of developing against a middleware or "infrastructure" API is well established in the Java...

0 replies - 4265 views - 03/10/10 by Andrew Phillips in Articles

Two Approaches on Multi-Tenancy in the Cloud

Continue on my previous blog on how multi-tenancy related to cloud computing. My thoughts have changed that now I think both the Amazon approach (Hypervisor...

1 replies - 5951 views - 03/03/10 by Ricky Ho in Articles

Comparison of the Grid/Cloud Computing Frameworks (Hadoop, GridGain, Hazelcast, DAC) - Part I

Some time ago we faced a typical programming challenge: how to perform an enormous amount of computations as fast as possible? The answer is simple: divide the...

27 replies - 29667 views - 02/10/10 by Krystian Lider in Articles

NoSQL Alternatives: An Interview with Gigaspaces CTO Nati Shalom

Since the dawn of software development, the relational database has served as the de facto solution for handling most of our data persistence needs.  With the...

1 replies - 16583 views - 01/15/10 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Grid Engine an Early Supporter of Hadoop Apps

Sun Microsystem's Grid Engine was recently updated with plenty of new features, including industry first they say.  Grid Engine 6.2 update 5 (SGE 6.2u5) just...

0 replies - 8188 views - 01/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News