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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010
Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.
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Clouds in Government - Perils of Portability
Gareth Rushgrove emphasized the importance of cloud portability in a world of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service, offering examples taken from the development of GOV.UK.
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PHP on the Metal with HHVM
Keith Adams shares details on building HHVM, a PHP VM built by Facebook, along with lessons learned doing it and tuning it for high performance.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Service Infrastructure and Server Virtualization
Jian Zhong and Eric Cole present the infrastructure virtualization, SOA and Agile development methodology used by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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In the Footsteps of a Giant - The Evolution of CloudStack's Architecture
Chiradeep Vittal discusses the architectural choices, dead-ends and successes that CloudStack has faced throughout its development.
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Services as Infrastructure: Looking at Enterprise Clouds in a Different Way with Eucalyptus
Rich Wolski discusses Services as an Infrastructure" and how enterprises can architect production cloud computing environments along with deployment strategies based on Eucalyptus.
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The CloudBrowser Web Application Framework
Godmar Back introduces CloudBrowser, a server centric web application framework where applications run in virtual browsers on the server while the rendering takes place on the client.
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Smart Clouds
Axel Angeli discusses features of “smart” clouds": loosely connected computers, new forms of artificial intelligence, self-organized collaboration , green.
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Reinventing Rackspace: Agile-techture - Nimble Cloud Engineering
Wayne Walls discusses how Rackspace does cloud based on OpenStack, touching: open source, cloud on cloud, continuous delivery, and open API.
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Lean Data Architecture: Minimize Investment, Maximize Value
Manvir Singh Grewal and Brandon Byars propose a business intelligence workflow along with Lean principles and practices for implementing a data warehouse and reporting capability.
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Big Data Problems in Monitoring at eBay
Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein discuss 4 aspects encountered at eBay when dealing with monitoring data: reduction of data entropy, robust data distribution, metric extraction, efficient storage.