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The Secret to Doing Cloud Scalability Right

Dynamically scaling applications in cloud computing environments is a fairly simple task. But doing it in a way that maintains performance while maximizing resources and minimizing costs well, that is not so trivial a task unless you have the right tools. This blog post explains that doing Cloud scalability right should be a balancing act …

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Cost Model for Cloud Applications

When your write software for the Cloud,  you have to answer the question “how much will it cost?”. This blog post provides tools and techniques to build a cost model for the cloud with a more specific focus on Windows Azure.

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Testing VMWare Cloud Foundry

This blog post describes the experience of taking Cloud Foundry for a quick test drive. The test uses vmc, a command line interface to deploy an application to Cloud Foundry. While dealing at that time with the beta release, this report contains nevertheless interesting knowledge for people that want to evaluate Cloud Foundry.

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Cloud Integration with Apache Camel and Amazon Web Services

In this blog post, Kai Wähner describes the combination of Apache Camel and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) interfaces of Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Simple Notification Service (SNS). Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is used to access messaging systems and data storage without any need for configuration. He concludes that …

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Cloud is an Exercise in Infrastructure Integration

This blog post explains that when you get down to the architectures involving the Cloud – public, private or hybrid – the issue is really about integrating infrastructure. Cloud computing is forcing infrastructure – network, storage and application delivery – models to adopt many facets of development.

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Scalable Static Site on Amazon S3

This blog post presents a strategy to run a scalable, available and cheap static site on Amazon S3 or Github. It describes the tools used to achieve this goal and lists the downsides that are linked to this technology. Some additional resources to build static web sites are included.

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Testing Cloud Storage Providers

Rob Mason provides a series of blog posts on how to evaluate the technical aspects of Cloud storage providers based on seven levels: 1. API integration 2. Unit testing 3. Performance Testing 4. Stability/availability 5. Scalability 6. Formal QA 7. Approval