Over the last few weeks the I’ve been putting together multi-cloud conversations and material related to multi-cloud implementation, conversations, and operational situations that exist today. I took a quick look at some of my repos on Github and realized I’d put together a multi-cloud Node.js sample app some time ago and should update it. I’ll... Continue reading →

I attended the PDX Cloud meeting to present, but more to ask a question. Here’s how I posed that question (slide deck at the bottom of this blog entry). I frame the scenario of the distributed development world of cloud computing, dive into the vertical world of enterprise dev and then throw down the big... Continue reading →

Over the last couple years there have been two prominent open source PaaS Solutions come onto the market. Cloud Foundry & OpenShift. There’s been a lot of talk about these plays and the talk has slowly but steadily turned into traction. Large enterprises are picking these up and giving their developers and operations staff a... Continue reading →

For a quick recap of last years Deploycon & related talks, check out my “Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity” entry from last year. PaaS Systems aren’t always effectively distributed. Heroku has fallen over every time east-1 has gone down at AWS. Not that I’m saying they’ve done bad, just pointing that... Continue reading →

What is Riak? Who builds it? Who maintains it? Can I download it? How does it work? What are the features? Here’s the start of answers to these questions and more. First, the basic high level description: “Riak is an open source, highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed database.” That’s the first line you’ll read when checking... Continue reading →