Typemock: Past, Present and Future
Eli Lopian of Typemock answers a few questions on Typemock origins and where Typemock is headed.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Scott Delap on Jul 21, 2008 10:16 AM
Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing cloud computing. It allows users to leverage their own server farms. The current version requires Xen to be installed on all nodes available for allocation. Among its features:
- Interface compatibility with EC2 (both Web service and Query interfaces)
- Simple installation and deployment using Rocks cluster-management tools
- Secure internal communication using SOAP with WS-security
- Overlay functionality requiring no modification to the target Linux environment
- Basic "Cloud Administrator" tools for system management and user accounting
- The ability to configure multiple clusters, each with private internal network addresses, into a single Cloud.
The FAQ on the website is quick to point out that while being interface compatible Eucalyptus is not a precise clone of Amazon EC2:
... Eucalyptus supports Amazon's interface syntactically and it implements the same functionality (with a few exceptions), but internally it is almost certainly different. Eucalyptus is designed to be extensible and easy to install and maintain ... While we can't be certain, Amazon's main design goal almost has to be scalability. Put another way, if we were to design a commercial software venue for cloud services where scalability is paramount and we could mandate how all clusters within the cloud were initially configured (instead of an open-source software tool for community distribution) we would have designed Eucalyptus differently...
Interested readers can find a presentation by project member Rich Wolski from the Velocity conference. Virtualization.com is also running an interview with Wolski.
Guide to Calculating ROI with Terracotta Open Source JVM Clustering
Hibernate without Database Bottlenecks
Gamma's Jazz platform's first implementation: Rational Team Concert (Trial Download)
Eli Lopian of Typemock answers a few questions on Typemock origins and where Typemock is headed.
Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations.
From QCon 2008, Daniel Moth presents on using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to create compelling rich Windows applications.
Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, talks about Industrial Extreme Programming which extends XP by including practices dealing with management, customers and developers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how different Amazon services interact, origins of AWS, AWS globalization and the March AWS outage.
Cloud services have helped bring virtualization to the forefront. Its full power however, also includes other benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid provisioning.
John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.
VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide provides a wealth of practical insights into setting up virtualization in todays corporate environments.
No comments
Reply