Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
In this article, based on chapter 4 of MongoDB in Action, author Kyle Banker explains how MongoDB schema differs from an equivalent RDBMS schema, and how common relationships between entities, such as one-to-many and many-to-many, are replicated in MongoDB.
This article explores the cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities. Cloud computing’s core technologies – Web applications and services, virtualization, and cryptography – have vulnerabilities that are either intrinsic to the technology or prevalent in the technology’s state-of-the-art implementations.
This article shows how to deploy an application built using Visual Studio LightSwitch to Windows Azure, which eliminates the need to dedicate resources to infrastructure management.
As OpenStack is supposed to be the universal cloud platform of the future, this article discusses the current status of its foundation and its strong relationship with Rackspace.
This article explains how the Windows Azure Service Management REST API can be used to autoscale a hosted service, so that it can handle the current and predicted load depending on the day of the week. By autoscale we mean the ability of a hosted service to scale itself elastically …
Your Azure application isn’t working. What should you do now? Better question: What should you have done before now? This article explains how the Windows Azure Diagnostics classes can help you to figure out why your Azure application isn’t working correctly.
Currently in public beta, it is anticipate that Python will be one of the most-used languages on the Heroku platform. This introductory tutorial will get you going with Python and the Flask web framework on the Cedar stack.
From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a lightning rod for dissention among enterprise architects, solution architects and application architects. Enterprise architects view SOA as a business initiative that should be guiding what information technology assets receive investment and how they relate to the business’ goals and mission. …
