May 25, 2012
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One reason for this revolution is explained by Etsy in terms of Conway’s Law:
When a team makes a product the product ends up resembling the team that made it.
I’ll extend this notion to say the team and thus the product end up resembling the underlying technology used to make it. When you change the underlying development infrastructure, by moving to a cloud, you are bound to change teams and processes they create.
(Full Story: Startups are Creating a New System of the World for IT)
May 25, 2012
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For all Amazon’s scalability, the offerings can be a bit rigid. For example, you can rent an Amazon instance with a certain amount of storage and compute power, but adding a few gigabytes of memory or another processor might require buying a whole separate instance, which may have more resources than you really need.
“You can’t go to the public cloud and say I want another 64GB of memory here. They look at you and say ‘buy another instance of this type,’” Leinwand said.
Leinwand said the Amazon instance model leads to over-subscription, meaning you end up buying more storage than necessary. Internally, Zynga uses direct-attached storage striped across multiple servers, providing a big I/O performance boost and more efficient utilization, he said.
(Full Story: How Amazon saved Zynga’s butt—and why Zynga built a cloud of its own | Ars Technica)
May 14, 2012
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CloudBees is a deployment platform specifically for Java apps
Cloud Foundry is an innovative, multi-language platform that is officially open source, but whose caretaker is virtualization leader VMware.
DotCloud is an independent, multi-language platform that boasts simple, command-line-based deployment of apps and databases using Amazon AWS cloud.
Elastic Beanstalk is operated by Amazon Web Services, the undisputed cloud infrastructure leader.
Engine Yard offers managed deployments of apps using Ruby on Rails and PHP
Force.com is the proprietary cloud platform from Salesforce.com.
Google App Engine is a simplified, but also inexpensive, deployment platform for applications in Java, Python or the open-source language Go.
Heroku is Salesforce platform for non-proprietary technologies.
Longjump is one of the first cloud platforms in the field (as early as 2008!) and includes a model/view/controller (MVC) implementation of Java designed to let developers build componentized apps arou
(Full Story: Why You Should Build Your Apps on a Cloud Platform)
February 18, 2012
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DeltaCloud works with 11 different compute APIs (ranging from EC2 to vSphere) and five different storage APIs (including S3, Eucalyptus Walrus, and Google Storage). The 0.5 release also has experimental support for the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI).
What does DeltaCloud do? It’s a server that accepts a standard REST API for doing things like creating new instances on the compute nodes, rebooting instances, getting hardware profiles and image details, and more.
(Full Story: A Look at DeltaCloud: The Multi-Cloud API)
February 11, 2012
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We built Cloud Assault because we want to help you change the world. We make dynamic use of cloud resources to provide you with simple, effective, powerful testing solutions for your APIs, websites, and infrastructure at a price that can’t be beat.
(Full Story: Cloud Assault – Load Testing)
February 10, 2012
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Now, complicated configurations are a thing of the past. With AT&T; Cloud Architect, there’s an automated, standardized and fast way to pick, provision and deploy servers over the web within minutes or hours, not days.
There’s no need to buy or build out your own on-premises infrastructure.
(Full Story: AT&T; Cloud Architect)
February 1, 2012
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Complete tour of the OpenShift Express project where we provided you with a glimpse of the possibilities that await you and your applications. It was a breeze to create your domain, define your applications needs and import your project into the provided git project. After pushing your changes to the new Express instance you are off and testing your application development in the cloud. This is real. This is easy. Now get out there and raise your code above the cloud hype
(Full Story: Rise above the Cloud hype with Red Hat OpenShift)
January 31, 2012
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Red Hat’s engineers are building Aeolus, a software suite to spin up, manage and deploy applications from physical and virtual servers to any public or private cloud.
(Full Story: Red Hat’s Aeolus to ‘out-Linux’ Rackspace’s cloud)
December 28, 2011
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With Hazel, DropBox, OpenShift and my iPad and I managed to create a little “Cloud IDE” to enable editing and deployment to OpenShift from my iPad.
(Full Story: Deploy to the OpenShift cloud from an iPad)
December 23, 2011
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OwnCloud is an open-source cloud program. You use it to set up your own cloud server for file-sharing, music-streaming, and calendar, contact, and bookmark sharing project. As a server program it’s not that easy to set up. OpenSUSE, with its Mirall installation program and desktop client makes it easier to set up your own personal ownCloud, but it’s still not a simple operation. That’s going to change.
(Full Story: OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own | ZDNet)
