One of the neat things about microservices is the ability to segment functional actions into scalability domains. Login, browsing, and checkout are separate functional domains that can each be scaled according to demand. While one hopes that checkout is similarly in demand, it is unlikely to be as popular as browsing, after all, and the days of wasting expensive money on idle compute resources went out when the clouds descended.
In that same vein comes the ability to also create performance domains. After all, if you’re scaling out a specific functional service domain you can also specify performance requirements for that domain – and do something about it. Whether it’s through caching or minification or TCP optimization techniques, you can improve the performance of a specific logical domain right along with its scale.
Archivo mensual: enero 2015
‘DevOps on Hybrid Cloud’ By @IBMcloud | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
In a world of ever-accelerating business cycles and fast-changing client expectations, the cloud increasingly serves as a growth engine and a path to new business models. Dynamic clouds enable businesses to continuously reinvent themselves, adapting their business processes, their service and software delivery and their operations to achieve speed-to-market and quick response to customer feedback. As the cloud evolves, the industry has multiple competing cloud technologies, offering on-premises and off-premises cloud platforms for both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In parallel, cloud standards are also evolving, including community standards like OpenStack and CloudFoundry. Most organizations who are adopting the Cloud today are ending up adopting it in complex ‘dynamic-hybrid’ environments. There is physical infrastructure that now co-exists along with the new dynamic-hybrid on-premises and off-premises Cloud hosted environments.
Intelligent Systems Services to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Intelligent Systems Services will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Established in 1994, Intelligent Systems Services Inc. is located near Washington, DC, with representatives and partners nationwide. ISS’s well-established track record is based on the continuous pursuit of excellence in designing, implementing and supporting nationwide clients’ mission-critical systems. ISS has completed many successful projects in Healthcare, Commercial, Manufacturing, Non-Profit and US Government sectors with a wide variety of operating systems, hardware, storage and data protection technologies.
An @AgilePoint Roadmap for the ‘Internet of Things’ | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The BPM world is going through some evolution or changes where traditional business process management solutions really have nowhere to go in terms of development of the road map. In this demo at 15th Cloud Expo, Kyle Hansen, Director of Professional Services at AgilePoint, shows AgilePoint’s unique approach to dealing with this market circumstance by developing a rapid application composition or development framework.
Jump Start Your IoT Development with Intel XDK IoT | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
You are a hobbyist; curious student or a developer-entrepreneur then you must get this kit to jump start your IoT development.
This is still in Beta but it has everything you need in terms of hardware, software, tools and forums to guide you through.
IoT dev kit is a subset of Intel IOT.
Microsoft One Ups Google+ for Photos
Just got the latest update for the OneDrive app and saw the new tags section that tries to classify photos automatically based on content.
Tags range from #building to #group. It is reasonably accurate too, though I don’t take too kindly to baby photos being tagged #dog & #animal.
Either ways, good to see a feature like this make it to an app rather than having a research lab project having its thunder stolen by a competitor’s published app (Hyperlapse from Instagram did pretty much this).
Filed under: Technology Tagged: Google, Microsoft, onedrive, Photos
Enterprise DevOps Potfolio View By @Plutora | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
When a CIO or a CTO thinks of the applications they support it is almost always in terms of a «portfolio» When a research company named Gleanster poll executives about agile data management they discovered an interesting trend. Companies are reporting an increase in portfolio sizes with just over 36% of all respondents from large companies listing 75 or more applications in their portfolio.
The New Virtualization By @Docker | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Docker offers a new, lightweight approach to application portability. Applications are shipped using a common container format and managed with a high-level API. Their processes run within isolated namespaces that abstract the operating environment independently of the distribution, versions, network setup, and other details of this environment. This «containerization» has often been nicknamed «the new virtualization.» But containers are more than lightweight virtual machines. Beyond their smaller footprint, shorter boot times, and higher consolidation factors, they also bring a lot of new features and use cases that were not possible with classical virtual machines.
‘Real-Time Big Data’ By @CodeFutures | @CloudExpo [#BigData]
You use an agile process; your goal is to make your organization more agile. But what about your data infrastructure?
The truth is, today’s databases are anything but agile – they are effectively static repositories that are cumbersome to work with, difficult to change, and cannot keep pace with application demands. Performance suffers as a result, and it takes far longer than it should to deliver new features and capabilities needed to make your organization competitive. As your application and business needs change, data repositories and structures get outmoded rapidly, resulting in increased work for application developers and slow performance for end users. Further, as data sizes grow into the «Big Data» realm, this problem is exacerbated and becomes even more difficult to address. A seemingly simple schema change can take hours (or more) to perform, and as requirements evolve, the disconnect between existing data structures and actual needs diverge.
Industrial ‘Internet of Things’ By @EnterpriseWeb | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The Industrial Internet revolution is now underway, enabled by connected machines and billions of devices that communicate and collaborate.
The massive amounts of Big Data requiring real-time analysis is flooding legacy IT systems and giving way to cloud environments that can handle the unpredictable workloads.
Yet many barriers remain until we can fully realize the opportunities and benefits from the convergence of machines and devices with Big Data and the cloud, including interoperability, data security and privacy.