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Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms!

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Cassandra,
QCon San Francisco 2011,
Amazon,
BigTable,
Cloud Adoption,
IaaS,
Companies,
QCon,
NoSQL,
Cloud Computing,
Performance & Scalability,
Database,
Netflix,
Conferences

Siddharth Anand presents how Netflix’s architecture evolved from a traditional 3-tier configuration to a cloud-based one, detailing the scalability and fault tolerant issues encountered.

News about Amazon Web Services

AWS Beanstalk For .NET, RDS For SQL Server

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
SQL Server,
Amazon,
Relational Databases,
.NET,
Microsoft,
IaaS,
Database,
SQL Server 2008 R2,
Companies,
Amazon RDS,
Programming,
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk,
Cloud Computing

Amazon has announced support for .NET on AWS Elastic Beanstalk and a new RDS service for SQL Server, bringing better manageability to .NET/SQL Server apps hosted on AWS.

Amazon's CloudSearch Stiffens Competition for Search as a Service Providers

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
IaaS,
Companies,
Search,
Cloud Computing

Amazon launched CloudSearch to address growing demand for search capabilities in applications without the overhead of standing up and maintaining search infrastructure. The launch has spurred off a race among search providers. This article focuses on the strengths and gaps in the CloudSearch feature set based on experiences and reactions from the user community.

Is Amazon Getting Ready for PaaS with Simple Workflow Service?

Topics
Workflow / BPM,
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
Business Process Management,
SOA,
Business,
IaaS,
Companies,
PaaS,
Enterprise Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Architecture

Amazon has announced Simple Workflow Service (SWF), a service for orchestrating distributed and fault-tolerant tasks that are part of a workflow implementing a business process. Are the recently announced DynamoDB and SWF pieces of a bigger puzzle suggesting Amazon’s entering into PaaS cloud computing?

Articles about Amazon Web Services

Interview with Rob Linton, author of “Amazon Web Services: Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application”

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
.NET,
Operations,
PaaS,
IaaS,
Companies,
Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Infrastructure

A new "Amazon Web Services : Migrating your .NET Enterprise Application" book by Rob Linton provides a deep insight into Amazon Web Services (AWS) covering a wide spectrum of topics from describing AWS components and their role in applications architecture to step-by-step instructions on setting and configuring each AWS component . InfoQ spoke with by Rob Linton about his book.

New Book: Building Applications in the Cloud

Topics
Python,
Amazon Web Services,
Dynamic Languages,
Amazon,
SaaS,
IaaS,
Languages,
Companies,
Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Boto,
Programming,
Amazon SimpleDB

Christopher Moyer has written a new book, “Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and Projects”. This book revolves around fundamental differences between the on-premise and cloud infrastructures, and architecture and design patterns that can be used to build and host scalable, reliable applications in the cloud.

Open Cloud Will Make Business SHINE

Topics
Spring,
Amazon Web Services,
Azure,
Virtualization,
Google AppEngine,
Dependency Injection,
SpringSource,
Java,
Amazon,
.NET,
VMWare,
IaaS,
Infrastructure,
Languages,
Design Pattern,
PaaS,
Google,
Architecture,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Design,
Object Oriented Design,
Patterns,
Companies,
Mule,
Programming

William El Kaim describes an Open Cloud Model based on agile principles and driven by an independent user community to define it further. He provides a sketch of a potential Cloud Operating System. He also defines the SHINE principles for transforming IT into BT (Business Technology).

Presentations about Amazon Web Services

Building for the Cloud @ Netflix

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Devops,
Amazon,
CodeMash 2012,
Continuous Integration,
Companies,
IaaS,
Agile Techniques,
CodeMash,
Build systems,
IT Service Management,
Deployment,
Infrastructure,
Netflix,
Cloud Computing,
Programming,
Conferences,
Agile

Carl Quinn presents the build and deployment architecture used by Neflix in order to provide content out of Amazon AWS.

Grails in the Cloud

Topics
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
Grails,
SpringOne,
Spring,
Java Web Frameworks,
Conferences,
Amazon Web Services,
Groovy,
Dynamic Languages,
Dependency Injection,
JVM Languages,
Java,
Google AppEngine,
SpringSource,
Cloud Foundry,
Amazon,
Heroku,
PaaS,
Languages,
Google,
Design Pattern,
VMWare,
IaaS,
Programming,
Companies,
Cloud Computing,
Object Oriented Design,
Patterns,
Design

Peter Ledbrook outlines the differences between several PaaS providers from the perspective of building, deploying and running a Grails application in the cloud, demoing running Grails on Cloud Foundry.

Interviews about Amazon Web Services

ThoughtWorks’ Fowler and Humble Talk Continuous Delivery

Topics
Team Collaboration,
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
Maven,
Continuous Deployment,
Adopting Agile,
XP,
Distributed Team,
Collaboration,
ThoughtWorks,
Devops,
QCon San Francisco 2010,
Agile Techniques,
Companies,
Agile Manifesto,
Pair Programming,
Agile in the Enterprise,
IaaS,
QCon,
Teamwork,
Operations,
Build systems,
Lean,
Project Management,
Adaptive Leadership,
IT Service Management,
Ant,
NAnt,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Conferences,
Architecture,
Infrastructure,
Programming,
Leadership,
Cruise

Two of ThoughtWorks’ finest, Martin Fowler and Jez Humble, talk about the notion of Continuous Delivery, which enables organizations to build software that is production ready at all times. To do this, enterprises automate the build, deployment, and testing process, and improve collaboration between developers, testers, and operations. The duo discusses a variety of related issues.

Hilary Mason on bit.ly and Trending Clickstreams

Topics
EC2,
Amazon Web Services,
MongoDB,
MySQL,
Amazon,
Strange Loop 2010,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Operations,
Strange Loop,
NoSQL,
Companies,
Relational Databases,
IaaS,
Infrastructure,
Architecture,
Cloud Computing,
Loose Coupling,
Machine Learning,
Conferences,
Interviews,
Database

Hilary Mason, interviewed by Ryan Slobojan, discuss the engineering behind bit.ly and their use of machine learning in their system architecture. Hilary also talks about their use of MySQL and MongoDB to manage terabytes of information about users and clicks and their implications on performing real-time analysis of anthropology on the human condition.