Understanding Cloud computing efficiency
Picking a cloud service at times, unfortunately, is far more complex than picking up a brand new car. I remember how torn I was between a honda-hybrid, which came with some tax rebates and a carpool...
View ArticleHeroku platform for scalable web applications
I’m so locked up in my own java world that I didn’t realize something as cool as this existed in the ruby world. Heroku is the instant ruby platform. Deploy any ruby app instantly with a simple and...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine 1.4.0 pre-release is out
The complete announcement is here, but here are the changes for the java SDK. The two big changes I liked is the fact that there is now an “always on†feature, and “tasks†feature has graduated...
View ArticleIts logical – IAAS users will move to PAAS
Sysadmins love infrastructure control, and I have to say that there was a time when root access gave me a high. It wasn’t  until I moved to web operations team (and gave up my root access) that I...
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