7 Posts

Topic: Architecture

Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery

Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery

How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.

Competition for the Cloud Heats Up

Competition for the Cloud Heats Up

Cloud no longer a single vendor game. For years cloud computing has been synonymous with Amazon …

The Golden Hammer

The Golden Hammer

Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …

Unix Jobs Management

Unix Jobs Management

Every self respecting linux, mac os X or *nix user should have a solid handle on managing jobs …

Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)

Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3)

Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the …

REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest

REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest

What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources

Luckily it’s 2009 and there have been a bunch of successful websites that have had to deal with …