Proposes a new cloud computing metric, Time-To-Scale-Out (TTSO), and discusses best practices for effective autoscaling in cloud environments.
A developer's summary of the OpenStack Juno Design Summit, focusing on Ceilometer project discussions, scaling challenges, and future improvements.
Explores common misunderstandings about cloud auto-scaling, explaining why it's not magic and why existing apps often can't use it directly.
Explains Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager, a global traffic routing service for applications deployed across multiple regions.
Explains Microsoft Azure Service Bus, a PaaS for asynchronous messaging, system integration, and mobile push notifications.
An explanation of Microsoft Azure HDInsights, a managed Apache Hadoop service for processing big data on Azure.
An overview of Microsoft Azure Web Sites, covering its features, pricing tiers, ideal use cases, and limitations for developers.
A high-level introductory series explaining Microsoft Azure services using a unique, structured format for easy understanding.
A guide to setting up a remote IPython Notebook server on Amazon EC2 for data science and analytics.
A developer's summary of the OpenStack Icehouse Design Summit, focusing on Ceilometer project discussions, new features, and the upcoming roadmap.
A developer's analysis of OpenStack's architecture, contribution process, and code quality after joining the project.
Microsoft announces autoscaling for Windows Azure Cloud Services and Standard Web Sites, allowing automatic instance management based on metrics like CPU or queue length.
A guide to free trials, APIs, and SDKs for learning cloud development on major platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
A Heroku engineer shares his personal perspective on how the platform has operated and evolved since its acquisition by Salesforce two years prior.
A guide to installing and using R on Amazon EC2 instances to overcome in-memory limitations for big data analysis.
Introducing Climate, a new OpenStack project for capacity leasing and resource reservations, aimed at HPC and service providers.
OpenStack's Heat and Ceilometer projects graduate from incubation to integrated status for the Havana release.
Announcing the free, global Windows Azure Bootcamp on April 27, 2013, offering hands-on development training in over 50 locations.
Announcement of the DevNexus 2013 developer conference schedule, featuring 8 tracks and 71 sessions on web, mobile, Java, cloud, and more.
Explains how to send emails from Windows Azure applications using SendGrid and asynchronous queues for scalability.
