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GlueCon 2013 Notes: Cloud Native Applications: What Changed – Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect at Netflix
Keynote: Cloud Native Applications: What Changed – Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect at Netflix (@adrianco and @NetflixOSS) We are engineers and strive for perfection, fix...
GlueCon 2013 Notes: 3 Things You Need to Turn Your Enterprise Into a Platform – Laura Merling, AT&T
Keynote: 3 Things You Need to Turn Your Enterprise Into a Platform – Laura Merling, AT&T (@magicmerl) The Journey AT&T’s journey: IT as a Platform (current) ...
Are You Building a Project or Product?
As a developer, I often see problems as projects. These projects have a problem statement, steps to resolve the issue, and target completion criteria. It seems like a simple app...
Good Idea, Well Executed
Many founders hold their idea close to them. Others share their ideas. No matter what option they select, ideas must be executed. Why? Because you can only learn so much without...
How to Request Help For Your Startup
As a startup, you need all the help you can get. But requesting the right help can be the biggest challenge. You may not know the right person to ask, or how to ask. Here are a ...
Guidelines for Modeling and Optimizing NoSQL Databases
eBay Architect Jay Patel recently posted an article about data modeling using the Cassandra data store. In his article, he breaks down how they modeled their data using Cassandr...
Getting Started with Heroku
I recently gave a presentation to the Austin Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup about Heroku. Topics covered included: What is Heroku and why would I use it? How much does it cost ...
5 Common Mistakes When Automating Application Deployment
I have been automating the deployment of applications to physical and cloud-based servers for many years. Here are five mistakes that I commonly find when helping teams with the...
When To Go With a Mobile First Strategy
The mobile first strategy has been an emerging topic for the last several years. But is mobile first really the best strategy for your next product? Let’s examine the thre...
Recommendations For Mobile API Design
Building a high performance, reliable mobile backend is just as essential to the user experience as the design of the application itself. While building a full mobile backend st...
5 Things To Do Before the Next AWS Outage
I am a firm believer in cloud computing. In fact, I’m focusing my business on the fact that cloud will be a standard part of software and IT architecture in the coming yea...
Free Paper: Cloud Computing Basics
An Introduction to Cloud Computing and How it is Changing Business Cloud computing can be a confusing technology. It can be hard to determine if you should move to the cloud ful...