cloud

The cloud according to CloudBees

Andrew Glover — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:59:37 -0500

The notion of the cloud has certainly evolved from some abstract definition of shared resources into a model whereby infrastructures have differentiated themselves from platforms. That is, while one might group Amazon and Google into cloud providers, their solutions are vastly different. AWS remains an infrastructure as a service while GAE is a platform as a service.

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SQL for the NoSQL

Andrew Glover — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:31:29 -0500

But there is one slight issue with NoSQL. You can’t use SQL.

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Gaelyk stories are easyb

Andrew Glover — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:21:01 -0400

On the heels of easyb’s newest release and the addition of a Google App Engine plugin for easyb comes another plugin: easyb-gaelyk. Briefly,

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App Engine stories are easy

Andrew Glover — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:07:17 -0400

With the release of easyb 0.9.8, a new plugin has hit the streets that enables easyb to more easily verify Google App Engine applications running locally.

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VMware puts Java at the heart of its cloud app dev offerings -- for now

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:14:17 -0400

First VMware made SpringSource's flavor of enterprise Java the programming environment for its teamup with Salesforce.com; then Rod Johnson proclaimed that you could build apps in that environment that had little to do with Salesforce.com's core CRM functionality.

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High performance SimpleDB

Andrew Glover — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:15 -0400

Sid Anand, who writes the Practical Cloud Computing blog, has a series of posts entitled “SimpleDB Essentials for High Performance Users” in which he outlines a set of best practices and conventions for effectively leveraging SimpleDB. If you are using SimpleDB or are planning to, I highly recommend reading his points as they are super hip. Check out:

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Leveraging JPA with Amazon’s SimpleDB

Andrew Glover — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:56:13 -0400

Modeling domain objects for almost any type of application is a breeze using a relational framework like Grails, but what about SimpleDB? This article published by IBM DeveloperWorks entitled “Cloud storage with Amazon’s SimpleDB, Part 2″ shows you how to use SimpleJPA, rather than the Amazon SDK, to persist objects in SimpleDB’s cloud storage.

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More GAE datastore resources

Andrew Glover — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:47:56 -0400

There’s an interesting interview with the creators of Twig, Objectify-Appengine, and SimpleDS, which are all ORM-like frameworks built for the GAE that facilitate working with the underlying datastore (an abstraction of Bigtable).

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In the clouds with Amazon’s SimpleDB

Andrew Glover — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:46:56 -0400

As part of the Amazon Web Services family, Amazon’s SimpleDB is a massively scalable and reliable key/value datastore, which is exposed via a web interface and can be accessed using any language you’d like — from Java to Ruby to Perl to C#. In fact, Amazon has recently released a standardized SDK for both the .NET and Java platforms.

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Effortless Groovy

Andrew Glover — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:30:02 -0400

Does the prospect of learning a new language daunt you? Does the effort it takes to download a jar file and place it in your classpath overwhelm you? If you answered “yes” (or even “maybe”) to either of these questions, have no fear, baby! The bright folks behind the Gaelyk framework (and not to mention Groovy itself) have lowered the bar as low as it can possibly get for checking out Groovy.

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Will Java EE ever make it to the cloud?

Josh Fruhlinger — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:32:34 -0400

Last week's Google I/O conference had pretty big news for Java developers: the release of a paid, souped-up Google App Engine for Java offering, in partnership with VMware, with support for the Spring Framework and an SLA promising 99.9 percent uptime. It's the sort of offering designed to expand the market for Google's cloud service beyond tinkerers and Web startups, and convince people in big organizations (with corresponding big budgets) that they should try the offering out. Will it work?

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Schemaless data modeling with Bigtable and Groovy

Andrew Glover — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:09:12 -0400

NoSQL datastores like Bigtable and CouchDB are becoming more and more hip these days because they solve the problem of scalability on a massive scale.

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GAE datastore resources

Andrew Glover — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:35:49 -0400

While I’m a big fan of leveraging Google’s low-level API Entity class (as decorated by Gaelyk) for persisting data into GAE’s underlying datastore, there are some up-and-coming frameworks that are worth examining. Both frameworks note the challenges with JDO and like me, prefer to work with Entity types.

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VMware/SpringSource relentlessly extending their Java cloud empire

Josh Fruhlinger — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:49:29 -0400

Virtualized-Java-on-the-cloud news is still the industry's most intriguing storyline this Monday, as SpringSource absorbs another startup.

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Yet another Cloud startup with (genealogical) Java ties

Josh Fruhlinger — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:14:20 -0400

A new cloud-oriented startup came out of stealth mode today, changing its name from the inscrutable VMOps to the much friendly, if 2001-ish Cloud.com in the process. While it isn't really a Java story the way VMForce and WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option are, Cloud.com does have a genealogical relationship with Java, as The Register details.

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A recent Java platform roundtable

Andrew Glover — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:01:38 -0400

I had the pleasure of joining a number of colleagues in a panel discussion regarding the Java platform recently. The resulting dialog can be found on IBM DeveloperWorks entitled “Java platform roundtable, Spring 2010” — in this discussion with the likes of Dan Allen, J.

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ESDC 2010 resources

Andrew Glover — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:48:39 -0500

I recently had the opportunity to present four different talks at the Enterprise Software Development Conference (or ESDC) in San Mateo, California. In an effort to provide additional data points and information, I created individual resource pages for each talk. These pages (hosted at my company’s site — beacon50.com) provide links to articles, blog entries, tutorials, and a copy of each presentation.

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Development 2.0 concepts at ESDC

Andrew Glover — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:30:54 -0500

In March, I’ll have the distinct pleasure of joining a number of hip friends in speaking at the Enterprise Software Development Conference (or ESDC) in San Mateo, California.

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Provisioning a Hudson CI server

Andrew Glover — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:42:54 -0500

As I wrote about before, CI in a Box is one of the easiest ways to get up and running with Continuous Integration– in fact, if you don’t believe me, check out the CI in a Box tutorial video.

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CouchDB is so Groovy

Andrew Glover — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:25 -0500

Without a doubt, the burst of innovation occurring in the open source world over the last few years has led to an increase in developer productivity, baby. Freely available tools, frameworks, and solutions address once-common time sinks. Apache’s CouchDB is no exception. It’s amazingly easy to get going with CouchDB once you have it up and running.

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EC2 is easier than you think

Andrew Glover — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:22:41 -0500

As I’ve written about before with respect to Development 2.0, the future of application infrastructures is already here: it’s the cloud.

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You can borrow EC2 too

Andrew Glover — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:05:40 -0400

The aspects of Development 2.0 aren’t really new– but they are each increasingly becoming a reality for businesses across the board.

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Instant Continuous Integration via the cloud

Andrew Glover — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:25:02 -0400

Looking to get Continuous Integration running for your project in short order? I recently took a look at CI in a Box, which is a

cloud based solution that provides Hudson, as a CI server, Java 6, Ant and Maven 2

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Java gets cloud-y

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:53:32 -0400

I'm on the record as Not Getting The Hype when it comes to cloud stuff; only time will tell whether this makes me like the guy who refused to get on the Network Computer bandwagon in 1997, or the guy who refused to get on the Internet bandwagon in 1994. But that hasn't stopped everyone else in the world from going stone code nuts, cloud-wise.

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SpringSource-VMware: Hyperbole and hard talk

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:03:28 -0400

The acquisition of SpringSource by VMware has given rise to an effluence of hyperbolic prose on the subject.

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