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API Management – Infrastructure vs SaaS

FrancoisLascelles — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:09:36 +0000

The Enterprise is buzzing with API initiatives these days. APIs not only serve mobile applications, they are increasingly redefining how the enterprise does B2B and integration in general. API management as a category follows different models. Preview Text: The author provides some things to consider before opting for a pure SaaS-based API...

Apache Thrift Quickstart Tutorial

chamith buddhika — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:37:15 +0000

Thrift is a cross language RPC framework initially developed at Facebook, now open sourced as an Apache project. This post will describe how to write a thrift service and client in different modes such as blocking, non blocking and asynchronous. Preview Text: Originally developed at Facebook, Thrift is now an open source RPC framework thanks...

Re-use Nagios Plugins in Sensu for Quick Profit

joemiller — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:04 +0000

In my previous article I mentioned a key strength of Sensu is the ability to re-use existing Nagios plugins. This is a powerful feature of Sensu. Nagios has been around for at least 1000 years according to most recent archaeological discoveries, which means a vast amount of human effort (and capital) has gone into creating Nagios plugins. Preview Text: ...

Massively Easy Win7 Box Setup From Scratch

mitchp — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:32:20 +0000

Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for building boxes for a few of his favorite tools like Vagrant, KVM, and Virtual Box. In this video you will witness the magic of VeeWee as Dubois sets up a Windows 7 box with VeeWee from scratch.From the GitHub page:VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base...

Automate Your DB Releases with TeamCity and Red Gate

troyhunt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:16:44 +0000

Databases have long been the poor cousin of the application tier when it comes to many of the processes we take for granted in the .NET world. Source control management, for example, is near ubiquitous for application files and there are several excellent VCS products which make versioning a breeze. Preview Text: Database source control is no...

Pipes: The Data Flow Framework for Gremlin - GraphDB Traversal

okram — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:29:07 +0000

Preview Text: Here's an example graph dataset to illustrate how Pipes works. Pipes is TinkerPop's dataflow framework that uses Gremlin, a graph traversal language. According to Marko Rodrigues, the pipes distribution includes multiple pipes that can be "mixed and matched to yield lazy graph traversals." This post includes...

Easiest Way to Deploy ColdFusion to the Cloud

jjohns — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:50:30 +0000

The Adobe ColdFusion application server allows developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. It is quite popular, and it's associated scripting language--ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)--has a vibrant and growing community behind it. Let's deploy ColdFusion (9.01) to the Jelastic cloud so you can see how easy it is! Preview...

Who's Responsible for This? Strategies Ops Teams

anichols — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:45 +0000

I’ve been having some discussions about this lately so figured I would write something about the topic. Being a member of an Ops team can be pretty challenging at times. The job can be high pressure and often it feels like you spend all your time fighting fires, shaving yaks, etc. One of the difficult parts of being in Ops is that it’s often hard to put your mark on things, to use your...

Amon: Lightweight, Open Source App and Server Monitoring

mitchp — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:50:34 +0000

Amon (named after the Egyptian Sun god or a demon) is a self-hosted toolkit that allows you to monitor web apps with a small footprint (Amon can fit in 20MB of RAM) and all the information kept in one place. It's a nice open source tool (with good docs) that can run on the smallest VPS you have. If you don't trust similar cloud solutions (some of which are not free) and you want to be in full...

Martin Fowler: The Future is not just NoSQL, it's Polyglot Persistence

martinfowler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:31:31 +0000

The NoSQL v. SQL argument has been beaten (almost) to death, and now it's time to look forward to the foggy future of the data storage and access. Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage have s recently released a slick infodeck tracing a simple history of databases, as well as their own prophecy of where databases are headed, namely Polyglot Persistence, or: "Using multiple data storage...

Cascalog for Graph Processing

renepickhardt — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:10:28 +0000

Nils Grunwald works at the french startup Linkefluence. Their product is more or less social network analysis and graph processing. They crawl the web and blogs or get other social network data and provide solutions with statistics and insights for their customers. In this scenario obviously big data is involved and the data carries a natural structure of a graph. He said a system to...

Cassandra Validation Classes / Types

boneill42 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:45:28 +0000

Cassandra validates column names and row keys using validation classes. This is put in place when you construct a columnFamily. As an example, in the Thrift API:CfDef columnFamily = new CfDef(KEYSPACE, COLUMN_FAMILY); columnFamily.setKey_validation_class("UTF8Type"); columnFamily.setDefault_validation_class("UTF8Type"); The default_validation_class is used to validate row...

DevOps: Adapt or Die

mitchp — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:45 +0000

Two bloggers have stimulated a flurry of activity in Sysadmin and DevOps communities recently with their similar conclusions about the ongoing fall of traditional system administration and the arrival of (you guessed it!) DevOps. Preview Text: It's a very cool time for developers, and it can be a great time for sysadmins too if they embrace...

NoSQL: A Life Without Schema

alkampfer@nablasoft — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:03:31 +0000

NoSql is not a replacemente for SQL databases, but it is a valid alternative for a lot of situations where standard SQL is not the best approach to store your data. Since we were taught that whenever you need to store data on a “data store” and you need to query that data for retrieval, SQL is the best solution, you have only to decide what Sql Engine to use and the game is done. ...

Brief Comparison between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Service

KarthikAnbarasan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:24:08 +0000

Today I was discussing about my first Windows Azure project and came to know some interesting things and some comparison between the Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services. Each has its own advantages and disadvantage, to my followers who frequently ask me about what Azure is and when to use the Azure cloud this comparison chart will give some insight on the things to consider. Below...