How disastrous would it be if you lost all your clients’ files? Here's your Field Guide to surviving a hard drive crash, among other things.Read More
Cloud
Web applications usually follow a synchronous communication model. However, non-interactive and long-running tasks (such as report generation) are better suited for asynchronous execution. One way... Read More
Apparently 90% of the data in the world was produced in the last 2 years – which should give you some idea of just exactly how much data is being accumulated the world around, especially by large... Read More
When I first came across Heroku it was a Ruby-only cloud service. I wasn’t a Ruby developer so I quickly forgot about it. But then they partnered with Facebook and you could create a Facebook app... Read More
Traditional enterprize systems have well developed designs & strategies around relational databases. Relational database products are well developed not only from a data consistency point of view... Read More
You’ve probably noticed a few articles as of late on SitePoint and its properties discuss Heroku and their offerings; they’re definitely shaking things up in the cloud services arena! In fact, I... Read More
Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage solution is useful for many things, and serves as the CDN for many major websites. But despite the portfolio of high-profile use cases for the service, it’s still... Read More
You can avoid most of the installation, configuration, and maintenance hassles associated with PostgreSQL by using cloud-hosted database service Heroku Postgres. Tim Boronczyk shows you how easy it... Read More
Cloud computing opens a world of possibilities for software and developers, but coding for the cloud isn’t necessarily as straightforward as you might think. The learning curve for developers can... Read More
Last time we setup our client-side code and made the map. In this article, we’ll get Events integrated into our Backbone-based client code, displaying the collection of user Events. Event Views... Read More
In the first part of this series , we went through the basic environment GAE offers the developer. You must be excited to get yourself into coding your first application and seeing it live! Setting... Read More
It’s the end of the year and the holidays are almost upon us. The US recently celebrated Thanksgiving and with Christmas coming next, we look forward to giving and receiving gifts. Shamefully, I... Read More
We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series , I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will... Read More
You have your big players in the cloud like Amazon and Rackspace. Then, there’s Liquid Web with Storm On Demand . They are relatively new to the cloud computing scene but, they aren’t a new... Read More
