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I am fascinated by APIs. I got to listen to the engineer from Mashery talk about their API services the other day. Ever since then I've been thinking a lot more about APIs. I just reviewed 25 top APIs out there:
Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced the availability of the final two documents produced by its Open Cloud Standards Incubator, which is working to establish a strate...
Once again I'm pushing the limits of what I"m allowed within an Amazon Web Services account. I need more server instances and more reserved IP addresses. So I have to go to the form(s) Amazon provides to:
Request to Incr...
I'm always working to clean up my platform and better use tools already in my toolbox. I have been using Google Notebook for quite a few years now. I have a lot of information in there, good and bad. Google discontinued Notebook quite a while ago, so I stopped using it. I kind of quit taking notes all together.
I have had an <...
Deeper and deeper I dive into HTML 5. The WebSocket API allows bidirectional communications with a server. Think of this one as how you wish AJAX would have been. Not only do you have Server-Sent Events with HTML 5, you can actually have multi-directional communicat...
As I continue my deep dive into the functional side of HTML5 I am learning about Server-Sent Events. Server-Sent Events enable servers to push data to a web page loaded in the browser. Think of it as reverse AJAX.
Using the EventSource interface you can register and event listener client side.
Then server side you send mes...
This is a second post in a series about where cloud computing is headed. In addition to regional cloud computing centers, the need for raw cloud storage is growing. A handful of providers are leading the charge in cloud compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):...
I am spending a lot of time lately writing and thinking about the future of cloud computing. The need for raw cloud compute power is growing as a utility for every day business. A handful of providers are leading the charge in cloud compute Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
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A couple of weeks ago I was writing about tools you should offer with your Application Programming Interface (API). I was putting together some though...
I thoroughly enjoy my career right now. It is exciting being part of where technology and computing is going right now. I'm a total cloud computing fanboy, I admit. I do try to keep it realistic and focused on how it influences business and IT operations.
Right now I can really see "cloud computi...
I was just reading Insights from the AWS Cloud Computing for the Enterprise Event in Los Angeles on the Morph blog. They offer some good morsels of cloud wisdom and have a good presentation by Dr. Werner Vogels. Wh...
I am impressed with Rackspace donating the code for their compute and object storage platform and creating the OpenStack. There has been a lot of discussion around the n...
After spending some time last weekend reviewing the exhibitors at the upcoming OSCON - Open Source Convention I noticed a pattern:
There is an explosion in databa...
After spending some time last weekend reviewing the exhibitors at the upcoming OSCON - Open Source Convention I noticed a pattern:
There is an explosion in database innovation right now
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I have several Amazon Buckets I quickly want to use for public viewing of images and other files for clients. I haven't had time to integrate the bucket policy API into our code base. I just need the buckets updated right a...
I am spending some time researching various open source and cloud computing service providers using the exhibitors list for 
I was just reviewing the cloud tools offered by Zeus. I was researching Global server Load Balancing (Cloud Balancing) software yesterday and they were on my list. Unfortunately I used an image from their soft...
