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Mitch Pronschinske11/11/11
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Video: vCloud Architecture Deep Dive

Check it out!  A new video is out from the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag series.  It's a deep dive into the architecture of VMware's vCloud. Great for engineers who are interested in learning about the deeper technical aspects of vCloud.  We also have the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/10/11
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Introduction to the HTML5 Web Workers

Web Workers offer a JavaScript multithreading approach for parallel execution which should boost your app's performance! URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/introduction-html5-web-workers?mz=46483-html5 ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/10/11
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Learn HTML5 in 5 Minutes!

URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/learn-html5-5-minutes?mz=46483-html5 Large Thumbnail:  5-Minutes1-300x225 copy.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske11/09/11
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Amazon Adds Another US West Region

I guess maybe the US Pacific Northwest and Mountain West got sick of Silicon Valley sucking down all the bandwidth for Amazon's first US West regional data center in Northen California, because today Amazon brought a second US West region online today located...

Mitch Pronschinske11/08/11
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Abiquo Adds Chef Support

The DevOps tool Chef got it's humble beginning as a cloud instance configuration management and deployment tool.  Now it can also work with on-premise infrastructure but it still hasn't been forgotten by the cloud community.  Abiquo, a cloud managment...

Mitch Pronschinske11/08/11
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A Peek at Google’s Production Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure

It seems to be the case that if we learn something from the stories about technology and processes that major tech companies use, we might be able to bring some of those best-of-the-best practices back to our neck of the woods.  We're fascinated when we get...

Mitch Pronschinske11/07/11
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DevOps and Private Clouds

At PuppetConf 2011 in Portland, John Willis and Damon Edwards catch up with Marten Mickos (CEO) and Rich Wolski (CTO) for a frank and informal conversation on developments with Eucalyptus, DevOps, and Private Cloud.

Mitch Pronschinske11/07/11
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Hibernate OGM Deployment on OpenShift

Hibernate Object/Grid Mapper (OGM) is used to provideJava Persistence (JPA) support for NoSQL data stores.  At this year's JUDCon London, Hardy Ferentschik presented a talk on how to deploy this Hibernate variant on JBoss AS 7 and OpenShift Express.  But...

Mitch Pronschinske11/07/11
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Revisiting Google App Engine's Pricing Changes - Getting Down to $0/Day

This post revisits my earlier evaluation of Google App Engine's post-preview pricing changes and how it affected my project, SMSMyBus.

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/11
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Ops in the Cloud

Despite the fact that all the marketing glitz promises dramatic improvements (including solving hunger, curing the common cold, and providing world peace)...

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/11
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Netflix Benchmarks on AWS Show Cassandra NoSQL Still Has the Goods

A little more than a year ago, Apache Cassandra's reputation was untouchable.  It was blowing other NoSQL data stores out of the water in benchmarks and in our very own DZone popularity poll.  What else would you expect from the data solution that was...

Mitch Pronschinske11/05/11
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Infrastructure Debt Harder to "Pay Off" Than Technical Debt

Most of you have probably heard the term "Technical Debt".  It's basically those bugs in a code base that add up after messy quickfixes that don't involve the proper amount of testing and refactoring.  The @TheKeyboard blog recently coined a the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/04/11
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Sensu: A Monitoring Framework Built for the Cloud

The company Sonian used tools like Nagios, Collectd, Graphite, and Ganglia for monitoring and metrics.  Today they use a tool that they created called Sensu.  This tool was able to keep up much better with the constantly growing number of Amazon instances...

Mitch Pronschinske11/04/11
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Spring + Hibernate + Google AppEngine's Cloud SQL = Awesome!

Java developers like Keith Mukai are doing some pretty awesome things with Google's preview of Cloud SQL for Google AppEngine.  Keith created a proof-of-concept app using Spring and Hibernate that was approved by Google to be part of the Cloud SQL limited...

Mitch Pronschinske11/04/11
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Pandaboard Cloud Cluster Running Google App Engine

A neat video courtesy of one Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) member:The cluster is made of 6 pandaboards with a total 6 GB of RAM (1GB per board) that...