Blog Posts about Cloud Computing Software Development
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.
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 …
In this blog post, Gordon Dicken presents a step by step approach on how to quickly get a Spring application running on Cloudbees. Spring Roo is a lightweight open source developer tool that makes it fast and easy to deliver 100% Java code. CloudBees is a Platform as a Service …
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 …
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.
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.
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
In this blog post, the developers of blitz.io shares how they are using Heroku, AWS and CouchDB as an infrastructure for their cloud based load testing tool.
