November 13th, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, oss
We’ll that’s the goal. Currently i have 5 ubuntu server instances running on my laptop (1 loadbalancer, 2 application servers, 2 database server), which are provisioned using Puppet. Next step is installing cloudfoundry. Some useful links: Howto: Install the CloudFoundry Server PaaS on Ubuntu 11.10 Getting started with the CloudFoundry Client in Ubuntu Vcap readme [...]
November 3rd, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in architecture, cloud, java
Ironically, one of the more interesting presentations yesterday at the nljug jfall 2011 was a presentation by David Chou of Microsoft on Azure. The largest part of his presentation discussed and demoed how you can create and deploy a java application on Azure. But the part I liked best was where he discussed architecture patterns [...]
October 5th, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in architecture, cloud, soa, software development
The next web linked to a really interesting presentation by Amazon’s CTO today: Amazon’s CTO: “Amazon is a technology company. We just happen to do retail”. Lots of interesting information here: Scrum & Agile – small teams, fast innovation, all teams are customer focussed. How to scale. Architecture – what’s important when architecting large scale [...]
July 22nd, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, software development
Just noticed this job description for a job at Amazon: Amazon is building a new team focused on social games innovation. This group offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you will be working on a cutting edge initiative within Amazon. Didn’t know Amazon was building games? Are they adding gamification to their [...]
June 29th, 2011 | by akoelewijn | published in architecture, cloud, soa, software development
Even if you are not planning to put your applications in the cloud, it’s a good learning experience to experiment with Amazon AWS Cloud. It enables you to easily and cheaply experiment with different infrastructure and deployment scenario’s. It’s also full of best practices regarding high availability, scaling, stateless servers, SOA architecture principles, security, etc. [...]
January 5th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, mobile, oss, web
Google used to be a search company making profit on adds. Today’s release of the Nexus One ‘superphone’ illustrates that Google is turning into the next Microsoft: a supplier of software platforms and applications. The Nexus One isn’t a phone, it’s a device to access the web. It’s just another Operating System to use applictions, [...]
November 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, soa, web
Recently David Pogue suggested smartphones like the iPhone should be called app-phone instead. I think focussing on the apps is wrong. For me, the thing that the iPhone does better than most other phones is internet access. The iphone is a net-phone. It is your mobile internet terminal. But it’s more than that, it’s also [...]
August 11th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in cloud, java
VMWare just bought SpringSource. Looks to me like they are going to compete with Google Apps Engine: offer a java based cloud platform as a service. This is probably good news for everybody who is using the free and open source versions of spring and grails. My thinking is that VMWare will use the free [...]
