I am convinced that over the next few years we will see the end of server admins and, to an extent, developers. If you take into account investment in new projects, time to turn around current...
Get a better picture – load test the cloud. Load testing is never finished. I’ve spent a good couple of days testing something only to find it slow down when in production, so when do you...
Sure the cloud is great for managing failure, but what if a whole data center goes down? Failure in the cloud usually means that an instance disappears. As I've described in the past,...
Heroku is platform as a service (PaaS). Instead of all that infrastructure, servers, and complications, you have a platform that is managed for you. With the move to cloud computing,...
Meter’s running - How to avoid spending all your money—Ever been in a cab, stuck in traffic watching the meter run. You watch each 50-cent increment nudge the fair up dollar by dollar,...
Here's a quick tip for managing AWS keys a little differently—All the tutorials you'll find refer to downloading the generated private key from the AWS console. This is fine for the first 10...
The guys at Netflix, who built the ChaosMonkey app I talked about last time, say that, in the move to cloud, you have to be prepared to unlearn everything you know about hosting.Cloud hosting...
To kick off this series, I thought I'd look at how you go about breaking your cloud setup once everything seems to be running nicely. Confidence grows with testing, and in cloud hosting -- and any...
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