DynamoDB is back. This was the word today out of Amazon sending shockwaves through the development world. If the days of cheap cloud-based NoSQL databases weren't here already, they certainly are now. We expect this announcement to have serious...
0 replies - 3959 views - 01/18/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
I received an email from Amazon today that I have never seen before. Here it is in its entirety:
Hello,
We have noticed that one or more of your instances is running on a host degraded due to hardware failure.
i-XXXXXXXX
The risk of your instances failing...
0 replies - 3445 views - 10/26/11 by Craig Dickson in News
This screencast explores all the options available for managing Java execution environments using the web management console for the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk service.
0 replies - 1471 views - 10/25/11 by Craig Dickson in Articles
This screencast shows how the AmazonElastic Beanstalk plugin for Eclipse allows developers to directly deploy their Java Web Applications from within
0 replies - 4235 views - 10/21/11 by Craig Dickson in Articles
The integration framework Apache Camel already supports several important cloud services (see my overview article at http://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2011/07/09/cloud-computing-heterogeneity-will-require-cloud-integration-apache-camel-is-already-prepared
for...
0 replies - 3161 views - 08/30/11 by Kai Wähner in Articles
Microsoft announced today that they will be awarding a total of $250,000 in prize money in a competition to create new security technologies for preventing memory safety vulnerabilities and exploits. The winner of the contest, dubbed the "Bluehat...
0 replies - 18026 views - 08/04/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
0 replies - 3155 views - 07/11/11 by Kai Wähner in Articles
This afternoon, the Java FX 2.0 release was made available in public beta format, signifying another big step in Oracle's plan to make JavaFX a premier rich client platform.
0 replies - 24223 views - 05/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
The Linux kernel developer mailing list featured a message from Linus
Torvalds which suggested that he will most likely complete merging
major changes for the next version of Linux derived from the main
development tree on Sunday.
Torvalds got people...
0 replies - 19853 views - 05/24/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Amazon is getting serious about competing with Google’s Android Marketplace, as shown by their recent contract with PopCap Games, who has agreed to exclusively distribute two of their popular game titles for a two-week period on the Amazon Appstore.
0 replies - 2608 views - 05/17/11 by Jim Moscater in News
I’d kind of avoided posting about the recent Amazon
outage – it’s an event that has had monstrous amounts written about it –
some of it beyond hyperbole. Case in point; NetworkWorld says that;
the Amazon outage set cloud computing back years
0 replies - 2060 views - 04/27/11 by Ben Kepes in News
Amazon seems to become a competitor for both Google and Apple. Recently, it has taken the following two steps:
It created its own app store for Android. [1]It created an online storage service that streams music to mobile and other devices. [2]
These feel...
2 replies - 2618 views - 04/04/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
While we have been evaluating in our blog posts the various features
available on popular Cloud Computing platforms today, i thought it might
be a good idea to understand when and how all this started and look
back at where this began and trace some of the...
1 replies - 12857 views - 02/26/11 by Kaushik Raghupathi in News
A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO. And who will take the helm of the world's most powerful web technology company? None other than Larry Page, a co-founder...
0 replies - 11253 views - 01/21/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
AWS announced that they are now providing a highly available Domain Name System service called "Route 53." The new service is aimed at developers who need a reliable, cost effective way to route users to their internet apps. The service will...
0 replies - 12983 views - 12/07/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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