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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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New Amazon App for Easier Two-Factor Authentication

As of this week, you now have the option of using applications in AWS to create codes for its Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) service.  For those who don't know, MFA is a security layer for AWS:

Mitch Pronschinske11/04/11
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DevOps Tool - Graph Processing Like a G2

What's should an administrator to do when the convoluted stream of log files from your new distributed system is just too overwhelming.  Abstraction is the answer according to a new research paper (via Microsoft) that suggests you use "execution graphs...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/11
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Video: One Man Ops

This talk by Jos Boumans takes you through setting up your infrastructure as code on EC2 with Puppet, Cloudkick, Ubuntu, boto, a few more tools and a...

Mitch Pronschinske11/03/11
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Distributed Application Architecture is the New Big Challenge - DevOps Orchestration Won't Solve it

DevOps doesn't alleviate the fundamental problems arising from inproperly built distributed applications says Rob Hirschfeld in his response to the 451 Group's recent Cloudscape Report.  The onus, he says, is now on developers to find the solutions to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/02/11
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Poll: Which open source virtualization/cloud platforms have you tried?

Today we revisit a poll about the open source virtualization/cloud platforms that developers have evaluated.  One was taken last year on Kris Buytaert's blog and here were the results (Take the new poll further...

Mitch Pronschinske11/01/11
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2012 Cloudy Predictions - DevOps Tools Integration, PaaS Gets Overhyped

A nice cloud computing predictions roundup has appered just ahead of the 9th annual Cloud Expo in Silicon Valley.  The participants included DZone MVBs such as Brian Gracely of Cisco and Ellen Rubin of CloudSwitch.  Each cloud industry mogul was asked to...

Mitch Pronschinske10/31/11
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I know IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, but WTF is CaaS, XaaS, and MaaS?

It's unfortunate that people in the IT and software industries love to make up acronyms as a smokescreen to keep us from realizing that there are actually relatively straightforward concepts behind the jargon.  Archie Hendryx puts forward this view in a...

Mitch Pronschinske10/30/11
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Jenkins Bootstrapper for the EC2 Cloud

Is setting up Jenkins on a fresh server a tedious process for you?  Wes Winham thinks so.  Thats why he's built a bootstrapping tool that gets Jenkins servers quickly forked and set up in the cloud.  Right now the tool supports Jenkins on Ubuntu 10.04 on...

Mitch Pronschinske10/28/11
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First OpenStack Public Cloud Offering Released

Open source cloud infrastructure has made its presence felt today.  The first OpenStack-based cloud offering is now available for public consumption.  Surprisingly, it wasn't the OpenStack founding organization, Rackspace, that made the first move. ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Video: AWS Cloud Architecture - Cloud Formation and Puppet Design Patterns

The cloud reinforces some old concepts of building highly scalable architectures and introduces some new concepts that entirely change the way...

Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Video: Analytics for Windows Phone and Azure Exception Tracking

Learn how to give your users a better experience by tracking exceptions in your app before customers report an issue. Join David Poeschl, lead developer...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 1.3.1 Release

The Windows Azure toolkit that provides support for developing cloud services and Azure-connecting Windows Phone Apps was updated today.  Let's get right to the new features:

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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WP7 Skydrive API 1.0 Released

Windows Phone developers can start building apps that access Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage utility today.  The 1.0 version of the WP7 Skydrive API was released this week.  Skydrive is Windows Live-based and can be used through the web browser: