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Queuing as a Service via Amazon’s SQS

Posted on October 26, 2011

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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An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB

Posted on October 23, 2011

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

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Relational Database as a Service

Posted on October 16, 2011

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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On migrating to the cloud

Posted on October 13, 2011

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

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Pushing a different branch to Heroku

Posted on September 24, 2011

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

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Working with EC2 video

Posted on September 15, 2011

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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