cloud

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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Scalability rap session with Todd Hoff

Andrew Glover — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:21:05 -0500

I have long admired highscalability.com for its focus on interesting techniques, libraries, and case studies all related to the hip art of scaling; indeed, this website has some super cool articles regarding YouTube, Amazon, and Google to name a few high profile websites that appear to have scaled quite copasetically.

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