Posted by Adé Mochtar mid-afternoon: December 29th, 2011
2011 has been an interesting year for cloud computing. Traditionally, cloud computing can be divided into three categories:
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
While SaaS has been around for some time (Salesforce.com started in 1999!), we are seeing an increase in adoption of IaaS and some heavy development in the PaaS world.
Now that 2011 is coming to an end, this is also the time for lists. So here are my 3 top 3’s of cloud computing.
Posted by Daniel Burm in the late afternoon: December 23rd, 2011
My motto regarding innovation is: being a first mover is a strategic choice, moving fast isn’t. Agile and scrum can help you move fast, so how can it accommodate innovation?
Posted by Maarten Kennis terribly early in the morning: December 19th, 2011
Introduction
One of the most common challenges of managing the configuration of servers in your typical DTAP environment is, in my opinion, keeping all the involved hosts at the same level of configuration in terms of installed operating system packages and their configuration files. It really can be a pain to keep all the systems at the same configuration level. Faillure to do so can lead to interesting situations where software produced by the project team does not run or perform on the acceptance and/or production environment while it was running perfectly on the development and/or test servers.
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Posted by Mark van Holsteijn in the early afternoon: December 14th, 2011
How do you setup a environment that support the continuous deliver of enterprise Java applications? How do you manage the large number of machines that are involved? How do you enable self-service, continuous delivery of applications onto the platform?
In this blog post we will give a description of an open source Java Application Platform as a Service that we created for our customer, using VMware, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Apache WebServer, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Puppet, Deployit, F5 Load Balancer and a Layer7 SecureSpan gateway.
Posted by Daniel Burm in the late evening: December 8th, 2011
A walking skeleton as meant in scrum is not always feasible. That’s the first sentence of one of my previous blogs. This one starts the same but approaches the subject from a different angle. The angle here is that we teach people to make story maps based on personas; the user, administrator and so on, but we don’t actually take into account that the product has to be bought by someone and how that decision actually works. This blog post tries to tie complex buying decisions into story mapping, to find the shortest route to a sellable Frankenstein, rather than a mere bag ‘o bones.
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Posted by Urs Peter in the early evening: December 5th, 2011
Being relatively new to html5 and mobile development I spotted an excellent opportunity to catch up with the latest trends during the QCon conference in San Fransisco where they offered a wide variety of html5 and mobile tracks.
In this blog I’ll share the insights I gained during the conference. After reading it you should have an overview of the following:
- where html5 is right now and where it is heading to with regard to mobile development
- the benefits and drawbacks of html5 for web-apps compared to native apps
- how to bridge some of the shortcomings of html5 with regard to native apps
- valuable pointers to resources helping you to get started with html5 mobile development
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