Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
This article from Brian Jimerson discusses how to engineer enterprise applications to ensure the highest level of availability and fault tolerance in the cloud. Recent events suggest that most cloud-based applications are not designed for traditional data center architectures, and when inevitable failures occur, these applications are unable to survive …
This article explores one important area of virtualization: operating system-level virtualization. This variant allows for a complete operating system to be created inside a virtual machine (VM). The management of such VMs is an important problem that has not yet been solved in the general case. The article presents the …
This article presents how to use Couchbase in a Windows Azure context. It covers the following features: create a Virtual Network with two subnets for the Couchbase cluster and ASP.NET web application; create Virtual Machine images for the Couchbase servers; install and configure the Couchbase cluster; deploy the TapMap Couchbase …
This article covers general architectural considerations and some base high-level designs for creating cloud-based solutions. This article will benefit folks by at least helping to frame and give some basic targets for their thinking about solution architecture. Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Windows Azure are used as the contextual …
This is an introduction to SQL Azure federations, one of the new tools Microsoft has made available to database architects and developers for scaling out a database in the cloud. Federations in SQL Database are a way to achieve greater scalability and performance from the database tier of your application …
Developers have developed applications for IaaS (Amazon AWS, Rackspace, etc) and PaaS (Azure, Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry) Cloud platforms. These platforms provide basic security features including support for authentication, DoS attack mitigation, firewall policy management, logging, basic user and profile management but security concerns continue to be the number …
This article from Ovum Research explains that Oracle has clarified its cloud strategy. Oracle new public cloud is expected to be commercially available by mid-2012. Ovum also explains that Oracle has moved beyond SaaS into business process-as-a-service (BpaaS) territory. As far as PaaS is concerned, Oracle should deliver a cloud-centric …
It can be difficult to combine multiple different frameworks into the same solution while working with new technologies. This article focuses on how to combine Silverlight 4, Windows Azure,and a WCF 4.0 (Windows Communication Foundation) service together.
