• Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon SimpleDB Consistency Enhancements
    "The first new feature allows you to do a consistent read. second new feature allows you to issue SimpleDB PutAttributes and DeleteAttributes operations on a conditional basis. You can combine consistent reads and conditional operations to implement a form of optimistic concurrency control, or OCC."

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  • chive – MySQL database management tool
    "Chive is a next generation MySQL database management tool. The web-based user interface supports most of the common operations needed by software developers and database admins (databases, tables, indices, keys, triggers, views, routines, privileges management, import/export). Chive aims to be an alternative to phpMyAdmin." — You go!

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Cloud Links for February 23, 2010

February 23, 2010

Building Clouds One 1.4
The slides from a 12 hour course on building clouds with Open Nebula!

Don’t Pass on PaaS in 2010 – ebizQ
Written by yours truly.

Cassandra Database accepted as a Apache Top-Level Project
Congrats to the Cassandra community. I'm excited about the work they're doing and the growing acceptance.

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The Essential Characteristics of PaaS

February 22, 2010

This morning, an article I wrote titled “Don’t Pass on PaaS in 2010” was published by eBizQ. The article provides an overview of PaaS for IT practitioners with particular emphasis on addressing the “so what?” question. I encourage you to check it out.
In the article, I present what I propose here as the “Essential Characteristics [...]

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Cloud Links for February 7, 2010

February 7, 2010

Burton Group Identity Blog: SPML Is On Life Support ….
"The reality is that SPML is not currently viable for building useful, standards-based provisioning services because it is too complex and places too much of a performance burden on the connector."

Designing applications for cloud deployment
Nice piece on architecting your apps for the cloud.

Hedging Your Options for [...]

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Cloud Links for February 1, 2010

February 1, 2010

ericflo’s twissandra at master – GitHub

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Cloud Links for January 31, 2010

January 31, 2010

up and running with cassandra :: snax

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Cloud Links for January 30, 2010

January 30, 2010

Amazon S3: Versioning Proposal
"Versioning allows you to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Once enabled for a bucket, Amazon S3 preserves existing objects anytime you perform a PUT, POST, COPY, or DELETE operation on them. By default, GET requests will retrieve the most recently [...]

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St. Louis Cloud Computing User Group -> First Meeting Tonight!

January 21, 2010

I’m cross-posting this from the stlcloudusers.org site: First STLCCUG Meeting Tonight!.
Tonight will be the first meeting of the St. Louis Cloud Computing User Group. I’m looking forward to meeting everyone this evening.
The speakers for the evening will be Bob Lozano and Kyle Cordes.
Bob’s talk is going to focus on how we got here and why [...]

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Cloud Links for January 13, 2010

January 13, 2010

Cerf urges standards for cloud computing
"Vint Cerf, a co-designer of the Internet's TCP/IP protocols and considered a father of the Internet itself, emphasized the need for data portability standards for cloud computing during an appearance on Thursday evening."

tonyg’s pika at master – GitHub
"Pika is a pure-Python implementation of the AMQP 0-8 protocol (with an 0-9-1 [...]

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