Tag Archives: cloud computing
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
Posted in AWS, Blog, Cloud Computing, Java, Ruby
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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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
Pushing a different branch to Heroku
I’m a huge fan of git-flow; it’s branching model facilitates a release model, supporting multiple versions and branches, quite nicely. For instance, during a development phase, all commits are made to the develop branch; consequently, when it’s time to push … read more
Logging as a service? You bet!
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Loggly CTO and co-founder Jon Gifford about the concept of logging as a service and how it allows for easier log management and manipulation. Loggly’s service is amazingly easy to stand-up — … read more
Working with EC2 video
EC2 is essentially a virtual computer running the OS of your choice along with various options for memory, CPU speed, and storage. EC2 is an Infrastructure as a service: itʼs bare bones computing power without the need for you to … read more
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Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, cloud computing, ec2, infrastructure as a service
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