Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
This web site contains a series of articles that should help ASP.NET developers move their applications to Windows Azure. ASP.net developer are already familiar with much of the Windows Azure platform and many ASP.NET concepts are directly transferable to the cloud. These part series will help you get ready, get …
You might like to know more about the impact of other architecture styles and trends on SOA. This article explains why SOA is a good fit for cloud-based deployments and how the cloud affects SOA. Dividing business capabilities into autonomous components fits well both gradual transitioning to public clouds and …
This article explains how JavaServer Faces 2.0 features are suited for the Cloud. It presents the @ManagedBean annotation, implicit navigation and resource handling. Cloud services might not have been a factor when JavaServer Faces 2.0 (JSF 2.0) was developed, but JSF 2.0 provides features ideally suited for the cloud as …
This article describes how you can use two open source tools, OpenStack and Crowbar, to provide an openly accessible, scalable and globally supported Cloud development platform. Using a Devops approache, cloud implementation experience suggests seven key principles related to help manage large-scale Cloud systems.
Scalr.net is the company build around the Scalr project, an open-source cloud computing management software. You can think of Scalr as a sysadmin robot that monitors your cloud infrastructure and adapts it automatically to the required workload. We had the chance to interview Sebastian Stadil, CEO and Founder of Scalr.net.
From the perspective of Enterprise Shared Services, the definition of the Cloud as a standard three-layered service model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) to describe cloud computing, with each layer defined in terms of the operational control capabilities it offers to its consumers, is not optimal. Shared services have unique characteristics around …
As the cloud provider is a critical project success factor, Cloud service development requires a different approach than the traditional software development lifecycle. The SaaS Development Lifecycle (SaaSDLC) is an adaptation of the traditional iterative software development process with three additional phases added: Evaluation, Subscribing and Operations. These phases are …
SOA and Cloud computing experts discuss in this virtual panel about relationships between SOA and Cloud computing. The panelists think that as standards were instrumental in shaping SOA, they will be important for Cloud computing maturity. Cloud implementations cannot succeed without proper architecture. Loose-coupling, governance and manageability are the SOA …
