Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
This article maps various Windows Azure caching capabilities to caching strategies for output, in-memory data and file resources. It attempts to balance the desire for fresh data versus the desire for the best performance. Finally, it covers a little bit of indirection as a means to intelligent caching.
As software development moves to the Cloud, we had the chance to discuss this evolution with Rajesh Ramchandani, who is the Founder and VP of Products of CumuLogic, a new company that is active in the Java in the Cloud market. The company was founded and is backed by former …
This article presents an store inventory application based on the new features found in the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus, using a mix of Topics and Queues. It discusses the basic features of the Windows Azure AppFabric ServiceBus and give a general feel for using it with example code.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource’s Cloud Foundary product. He discusses the drivers for adopting cloud and platform as a service. He talks also about the choice between private or public PaaS and the recent launch …
This article discusses the issues and challenges in cloud computing standardization. He also compares the cloud-computing standards proposed by various organizations. True interoperability requires translation of specific application and service functionality from one cloud to another, and this won’t happen without standardization. For example, there currently is no standardized way …
This article provides a detailed overview of how an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service is orchestrated and automated. It provides information on how the basic resources are added to the cloud and how services are added to the cloud. Then it explores the creation and placement strategies used within …
In a typical website, some element of static reference data exists in the system. This static reference data might never change or might change infrequently. Rather than continually querying for the same data from the database, storing the data in a cache can provide great performance benefits. This article discusses …
This sample demonstrates how to partition your data in SQL Azure. It shows two ways: one is vertical partitioning while the other is horizontal partitioning. In this version of vertically partitioning for SQL Azure we are dividing all the tables in the schema across two or more SQL Azure databases. …
