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Appfog PaaS in Exo IDE

Here's a deployment of a Java Spring app to Appfog, as well as how to update the app and management of Appfog apps in Exo IDE.  

0 replies - 1714 views - 12/28/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Making your apps truly HA on AWS - lessons from the recent outage

This summer, AWS had an outage in one of their data centers. Unlike last year, this year's outage had lesser impact on only one Availability Zone in the...

0 replies - 2545 views - 12/21/12 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles

Be Victor in Your Virtualization Environment (Part 1)

Thoughts From the Mind of a Previous VMware Admin (aka Game Master) Do you ever feel like your Windows server is not performing well in the VMware...

0 replies - 2091 views - 12/19/12 by Tommy Patterson in Articles

Leveraging Windows Azure and Twilio to Support SMS in the Cloud

 Introduction Leveraging SMS messaging in a cloud context is a powerful capability. There are a wide variety of applications that can be built upon...

0 replies - 2246 views - 12/13/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Holiday Gift Guide: Finding the Perfect Present for the Geeky Girl in Your Life

Ready or not, the holidays are here. No matter which holiday you celebrate, every guy faces the same question: What should I get the lady in my life this year?...

0 replies - 6244 views - 12/10/12 by Kelly Reiser in Articles

WordPress with SQL Azure

Windows Azure supports WordPress out of the box. But what is little-known are the limitations of this solution:The maximum size of the WordPress database...

0 replies - 2063 views - 12/03/12 by Mikael Koskinen in Articles

Solving Real-World Problems with Windows Azure Web Sites

One of my peers, Brady Gaster, has released a blog post series on solving real-world problems with Windows Azure Web Sites. Windows Azure Web Sites, as I’m...

0 replies - 1392 views - 12/02/12 by Chris Koenig in Articles

Advanced JBoss & Java in the Cloud [Video]

I took some time to video a screencast of my session at the Red Hat Developer Day in London in early November. The session was recorded but I forgot to record...

0 replies - 4210 views - 11/30/12 by Eric D. Schabell in Articles

GraphConnect 2012: Using A GraphDB In the Cloud

  Smitha Kulkarni Gudur and Manoj Joshii give a presentation at GraphConnect 2012 about using a GraphDB in a Cloud deployment.

0 replies - 2279 views - 11/24/12 by Allen Coin in Articles

How to Delete an Entire Azure Table in One Command

How to delete an entire Azure table is quite easy.I get this question quite often. I normally would not create such a simple post.Most developers think they...

0 replies - 1451 views - 11/18/12 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

A New WinRT Behavior to Mimic EventToCommand

Some time ago I posted a WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand. This behavior cunningly looked for the command name in the DataContext, but it occurred...

0 replies - 1701 views - 11/15/12 by Joost Van Schaik in Articles

Cloud DBA and Management: What an Expert Needs to Know

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? This is the last of a three part guide to interviewing for a cloud operations position. You can find them here...

0 replies - 2994 views - 11/11/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

Mastering the Cloud Deployment Interview

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? In part one of the cloud interview guide, we covered some basic unix & Linux systems...

0 replies - 2996 views - 11/06/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

Deploying Lift Apps with OpenShift and Escalante is Ridiculously Simple

The RedHat OpenShift folks are making it super-simple to deploy a Lift app.The Escalante project provides an amazingly simple way to deploy...

0 replies - 2751 views - 11/06/12 by David Pollak in Articles

The Cloudcast, Ep. 62: Nebula, OpenStack, and the OpenStack Foundation

The Cloudcast, Ep. 62: Nebula, OpenStack, and the OpenStack Foundation Download the MP3. Topic 1 - Let’s start with a “State of the...

0 replies - 2013 views - 11/05/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles