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  • Automating Data Protection Across the Enterprise

    This article builds on the foundational Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3) architecture for application security in the cloud by defining a Data Encryption Infrastructure(DEI) which is not application specific. DEI encompasses technology components and an application architecture that governs the protection of sensitive data within an enterprise.

  • The Continuous Delivery Maturity Model

    Continuous Delivery is rapidly gaining recognition as a successful strategy for true business agility. For many organizations the question is no longer “why?”, but rather “how?” How do you start with CD, and how do you transform your organization to ensure sustainable results. The authors present a Maturity Model to help address some of the key aspects you need to consider when adopting CD.

  • DevOps @ Nokia Entertainment

    DevOps@Nokia Entertainment is the first article of the “DevOps War Stories” series. Each month we hear what DevOps brings to a different organisation, we learn what worked and what didn’t, and chart the challenges faced during adoption.

  • Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide

    "Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide" is a good starting point for newbies as well as for those facing the challenge of changing organizations with complex release processes.

  • Using AWS Cloud Search

    Many of today’s applications heavily rely on the search functionality. In this Article Boris Lublinsky explains how to build Java APIs for uploading data and implementing search for Amazon Cloud Search. Usage of these APIs can simplify embedding Amazon Cloud Search functionality into custom applications.

  • PaaS Is The Word

    This article presents a transition path to Platform-as-a-Service for IT. An exploration of the steps from pre-virtualization or virtualization through selecting and operating a PaaS.

  • Implementing Pub/Sub based on AWS technologies

    Publish Subscribe is an important component of many real life implementations. In this article Boris Lublinsky shows how to combene several of-the-shelf AWS components to build simple, yet flexible and powerful PubSub Service

  • A User’s Story: DubDubDeploy

    When Donte Ormsby came to us, it was just a friendly letter to say that he found a great tool for simplifying website deployment using ASP.NET and thought our reader might find it useful. After talking a bit, we decided the best way to introduce DubDubDeploy to you would be for him to just tell his story.

  • Inside the Complexity of Delivering Cloud Computing

    There's a lot more to cloud computing than meets the eye. This article presents an insider's view on what really is entailed in designing and deploying a cloud-based solution.

  • Testing in the Cloud: Exploring the Practice

    In this article, authors discuss the effects of cloud-based testing in software delivery process. They talk about cloud-based testing services such as performance testing and web-based application testing. They also share the results from their interviews with different organizations and their use of cloud in testing and suggest a cloud-based testing roadmap.

  • CAP and Cloud Data Management

    In this article, author Raghu Ramakrishnan discusses data management in the cloud and the tradeoff between consistency, availability and partition tolerance aspects of CAP theorem, which has become a key design factor in large scale data management systems. He also talks about Yahoo PNUTS system case study and concepts of Relaxed and Timeline consistency and Selective record replication.

  • SaaS-ify Legacy Applications

    Legacy applications can be difficult to move to the cloud, yet you may want to include them in your IT-as-a-Service strategy. This article discusses an approach to wrapping legacy applications for delivery as Software-as-a-Service.

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