Category Archives: Blog
InfoWorld review: MongoDB
I recently had the pleasure of writing a review of MongoDB for InfoWorld. For those unfamiliar with MongoDB (or Mongo for short), it’s an “open source, schema-free document store written in C++ that boasts support for a wide array of … read more
Restoring a MongoDB instance
At App47, our production MongoDB instance is managed by MongoHQ — that is, we use their PaaS to host our data and leave the details of running and maintaining MongoDB instances up to them. It’s a handy service and worth … read more
Intro to MongoDB demo
MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, document-oriented schemaless database. This short demo, entitled “An Introduction to MongoDB“, provides a quick tour of its use, and helps you understand where it’s most applicable. You’ll see first hand how to leverage Mongo’s shell … read more
Queuing as a Service via Amazon’s SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) borrows what it needs from message-oriented middleware (MOM) but doesn’t lock you in to any one implementation language or framework. In this article, entitled “Cloud-based messaging with Amazon SQS” learn how to use Amazon SQS … read more
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Tagged aws, cloud, cloud computing, sqs
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An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB
Follow along as this demo, entitled “An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB“, guides you through an introduction to SimpleDB, a massively scalable, highly available key/value datastore. Part of the Amazon Web Services suite, SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to … read more
Posted in AWS, Blog, Cloud Computing, Java, NoSQL
Tagged amazon web services, aws, cloud, cloud computing, nosql, simpledb
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JavaScript for Java developers
Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting alternative. And yet JavaScript is still around, and it’s the basis of exciting web … read more
Relational Database as a Service
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) offloads the work of maintaining a database to Amazon Web Services, which makes it exceptionally easy to increase or swap out your application’s data storage. This article, entitled “Play-ing with Amazon RDS” revisits a location-based … read more
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Tagged aws, cloud, cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, PAAS, platform as a service, RDS
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On migrating to the cloud
Considering moving into the cloud are you? Well then, have I got something for you! Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to catch up with Paul Duvall, the CTO of Stelligent and we, indeed, talked about this very … read more
Java EE testing with Arquillian
I recently caught up with my old friend, Dan Allen, who is a Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist. In this podcast, he explains how Arquillian eases integration testing by providing a test harness to abstract away … read more
Rapid Android development with JRuby
A few interesting pieces of data: 70% of the world’s population has a mobile phone over a million Android devices are activated weekly 1/2 of all local searches are done on a mobile device over 90% of mobile Internet access … read more
