Chef in the Cloud and On the Ground
Michael T. Nygard discusses using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems.
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VMware's CloudFoundry Service Gains Support for PostgreSQL
VMware is adding support for PostgreSQL to CloudFoundry, it's open source PAAS solution.
Adrian Cole Announces JClouds 1.0 Release
The goal of the new JClouds 1.0 release is to provide a common interface for managing compute nodes and storage nodes across many vendors, providers, frameworks and APIs from IaaS to PaaS, says JClouds founder Adrian Cole.
Articles about Deployment / Datacenter
Going Live: The Role of Development and Operations in Preparing and Deploying Software Packages
A discussion of how Development, Operations and others can collaborate to prepare a good deployment package. minimizing the potential for error, improving clarity, and allowing for customization.
The Problem of Power Consumption in Servers
Power consumption by servers is of increasing concern to business and IT management. This Intel article discusses the sources of power consumption as a function of server form factor and workload; power consumption of other components, power supplies and conversion, plus heat generation and cooling demands. How to estimate consumption and design factors affecting consumption are also covered.
Presentations about Deployment / Datacenter
Deploying Java Applications on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson presents the details of deploying multi-tier Apache/Tomcat/MySQL applications on Amazon EC2, what it takes to access EC2, to deploy a web server, an application server, and a database, handling security, making a case for PaaS which does not require an administration effort.
DoD Architecture Approach to Common Vocabulary Driven Service Implementation
Dennis E. Wisnosky presents the path going from governance to deploying by illustrating how the Business Enterprise Common Core Metadata COI governs the Common Vocabulary used for the DoD Business Operations information exchanged between Core Business Missions by Defense Business Systems at the Enterprise Tier.
Interviews about Deployment / Datacenter
Ari Zilka on RAM is the New Disk & BigMemory
Terracotta creator Ari Zilka talks about about the RAM is the new disk and argues for scaling up before scaling out, comparing the architectural approaches of lots of VMs with small heaps vs. a few JVMs with very large heaps. Ari introduces BigMemory, a Java add-on to Enterprise Ehcache, which allows app designs with huge amounts of memory accessible in-process, with minimal garbage collection.
Randy Shoup on Evolvable Systems
Randy Shoup discusses evolvable systems: how to run different versions of a system in parallel during migrations, decoupling a system with events, schemas at eBay and much more.
