Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
You might like to know more about the impact of other architecture styles and trends on SOA. This article explains why SOA is a good fit for cloud-based deployments and how the cloud affects SOA. Dividing business capabilities into autonomous components fits well both gradual transitioning to public clouds and …
This article explains how JavaServer Faces 2.0 features are suited for the Cloud. It presents the @ManagedBean annotation, implicit navigation and resource handling. Cloud services might not have been a factor when JavaServer Faces 2.0 (JSF 2.0) was developed, but JSF 2.0 provides features ideally suited for the cloud as …
This article describes how you can use two open source tools, OpenStack and Crowbar, to provide an openly accessible, scalable and globally supported Cloud development platform. Using a Devops approache, cloud implementation experience suggests seven key principles related to help manage large-scale Cloud systems.
Scalr.net is the company build around the Scalr project, an open-source cloud computing management software. You can think of Scalr as a sysadmin robot that monitors your cloud infrastructure and adapts it automatically to the required workload. We had the chance to interview Sebastian Stadil, CEO and Founder of Scalr.net.
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.
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 …
