IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets - A Recap

Contributed by Anoop on Oct 21 2013

Following the success of its first edition, the second edition of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM) was held at Bangalore, India between October 16th and October 18th, 2013. The conference focused on challenges and opportunities in cloud computing in emerging markets. The event brought...

Auto-Scaling Amazon ElastiCache

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Aug 30 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service provided by Amazon. It is protocol compliant with memcached. So one can use ElastiCache as a memcached server without having to run and manage a memcached server. Launching a cluster of ElastiCache nodes is a matter of a...

Magento Performance Comparison Between AWS and Digital Ocean - A Few Findings

Contributed by Anoop on Aug 22 2013

We did a performance comparison between Amazon AWS and Digital Ocean and here is our preliminary findings. We set up base Magento on AWS as well as on DigitalOcean (DO) (SSD based cloud) and did some tests using sample data. In all cases, AWS version was faster loading by 20 to...

Why Visual Cloud? - The ‘behind the scenes’ story

Contributed by Anoop on Aug 17 2013

Cloud infrastructure teams often create and maintain deployment diagrams & documentation. Information about which servers are running in each AWS environment and what is the size & state of the servers tend to get quickly out-of-date without a rigid process in place. Furthermore, the current state of an environment in...

Harmony in Grails framework

Contributed by uttam on Jun 10 2013

Since its introduction in 2006, Grails has truly evolved and come a long way. With some great support from its community folks, many websites have been developed on Grails that are driving a number of businesses all across the globe. This blog is an effort to articulate how Grails retains its...

J.A.M.- Lightning fast & Distributed Architecture for building eCommerce Stores

Contributed by Vinci Rufus on Jun 4 2013

A couple of months ago we demonstrated J.A.M. ( JSON AngularJS and Magento) during Magento's Imagine conference and it was very well received. This post elaborates further from my talk at Imagine. Getting traffic to the site is usually where most of the effort  of an eCommerce Store owner goes, but...

Google GCM Cloud Connection Server

Contributed by admin on May 29 2013

Google, a prodigy of today’s mobile technologies, has announced improvements to its cloud messaging system in the Google I/O-2013 Keynotes session. Any third party server can now carry out bi-directional and asynchronous communications with android devices through the services provided by Google’s Cloud Connection Server (CCS). CCS uses XMPP protocol...

Google IO 2013

Contributed by admin on May 16 2013

Google's IO 2013 is an ongoing event with a lot of interesting new features for developers. From an Android developer's perspective we found a few features quite interesting. Here’s our take from the first day.

1. New Google Maps Android API

Google has exposed 3 new location APIs for developers -       Fused location provider -      ...

Why Spend on Sizing & Load-Testing on the Cloud? Set up Auto-Scale

Contributed by admin on May 16 2013

Often, product owners and developers ask the question – what should be the size of my infrastructure on the cloud. And often, load tests are prescribed, planned & executed over several days to understand the number of servers required, the load handling capacity and mean-time-to-failure, among other things. While these...

Computing operating cost on AWS and other hosting providers

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Apr 24 2013

Recently while designing the architecture of one of the project, the client asked us to compute the operating cost of the architecture we were proposing.  Below are the steps we followed to compute the same for AWS. The same can be used for other hosting environments. Basically you need to find...