The necessity of PaaS: Will Microsoft be the Singapore of Cloud Computing?
From ancient Mesopotamia to, more recently, Holland, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore and Korea, the success of many societies has been in part credited to their lack of natural resources. The theory...
View ArticleThe PaaS Lament: In the Cloud, application administrators should administrate...
Some organizations just have “systems administrators” in charges of their applications. Others call out an “application administrator” role but it is usually overloaded: it doesn’t separate the...
View ArticleExalogic, EC2-on-OVM, Oracle Linux: The Oracle Open World early recap
Among all the announcements at Oracle Open World so far, here is a summary of those I was the most impatient to blog about. Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud This was the largest part of Larry’s keynote,...
View ArticleRedeeming the service description document
A bicycle is a convenient way to go buy cigarettes. Until one day you realize that buying cigarettes is a bad idea. At which point you throw away your bicycle. Sounds illogical? Well, that’s pretty...
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Lifting the curtain on PaaS Cloud infrastructure (can you handle the truth?)
The promise of PaaS is that application owners don’t need to worry about the infrastructure that powers the application. They just provide application artifacts (e.g. WAR files) and everything else is...
View ArticleCloud management is to traditional IT management what spreadsheets are to...
It’s all in the title of the post. An elevator pitch short enough for a 1-story ride. A description for business people. People who don’t want to hear about models, virtualization, blueprints and...
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Nice incremental progress in Google App Engine SDK 1.4
When Google released version 1.3.8 of the Google App Engine SDK in October, they introduced an instance console, showing you how many instances are serving your application and some basic metrics about...
View ArticleAmazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs
Every time a new Cloud API is announced, its “RESTfulness” is heralded as if it was a MUST HAVE feature. And yet, the most successful of all Cloud APIs, the AWS API set, is not RESTful. We are far...
View ArticleThe REST bubble
Just yesterday I was writing about how Cloud APIs are like military parades. To some extent, their REST rigor is a way to enforce implementation discipline. But a large part of it is mostly bling aimed...
View ArticleAWS CloudFormation is the iPhone of Cloud services
Expanding on tweet that I wrote soon after the announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The iPhone unifies the GPS, phone, PDA, camera and camcorder. CloudFormation does the same for infrastructure services...
View ArticleCloudFormation in context
I’ve been very positive about AWS CloudFormation (both in tweet and blog form) since its announcement . I want to clarify that it’s not the technology that excites me. There’s nothing earth-shattering...
View ArticleReading IBM’s proposed standard for Cloud Architecture
Did you enjoy the first version of IBM’s Cloud Computing Reference Architecture? Did you even get certified on it? Then rejoice, because there’s a new version. IBM recently submitted the IBM Cloud...
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AJAX+REST as the latest architectural mirage
If the Web wasn’t tragically amnesic, I could show you 15-year old articles explaining how XSLT was about to revolutionize Web applications. In that vision, your Web server would return an XML file...
View ArticleBSM with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
My colleagues Ashwin Karkala and Govinda Sambamurthy have written a book about modeling and managing business services using the current version of Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11g R1). Nobody...
View ArticleDMTF publishes draft of Cloud API
Note to anyone who still cares about IaaS standards: the DMTF has published a work in progress. There was a lot of interest in the topic in 2009 and 2010. Some heated debates took place during Cloud...
View ArticleIntroducing Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, the new version of Oracle’s IT management product came out a few weeks ago, during Open World (video highlights of the launch). That release was known...
View ArticleEverything is PaaSible
That’s the title of an article I wrote for InfoQ and which went live today. If you can get past the punny title you’ll read about the following points: In traditional (and IaaS) environments, many...
View ArticleCome for the PaaS Functional Model, stay for the Cloud Operational Model
The Functional Model of PaaS is nice, but the Operational Model matters more. Let’s first define these terms. The Functional Model is what the platform does for you. For example, in the case of AWS S3,...
View ArticleGAE Traffic Splitting
Interesting addition to the Google App Engine (GAE) platform in release 1.6.3: Traffic Splitting lets you run several versions of your application (using a DNS sub-domain for each version) and choose...
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