Musings on Application Delivery

Are you load balancing servers or applications? Network traffic or application requests? If your strategy to application availability is network-based you might need a change in direction (up the…

How Infrastructure 2.0 might leverage publish-subscribe technology like PubSubHubub to enable portability of applications across clouds and data centers

Tower of Babel by…

Sharing is core to a successful cloud implementation but not something every organization does well. How do you encourage business stakeholders to play well with others?

In most…

Infrastructure 2.0 is not just about automation, but rather is about the orchestration of processes, which are actually two different things: the former is little more than advanced scripting, the…

Logs are for auditing, accountability, and tracking down offenders – not for providing real-time security

A new law signed into effect in February 2009 requires that health care providers and…

A load balancing algorithm can make or break your application’s performance and availability

It is a (wrong) belief that “users” of cloud computing and before that “users” of corporate data…

There is no reason in a modern web application for users to see a white error page

Sightings of the Twitter “fail whale” are, these days, fewer and far between. That’s a good thing. What’s…

Leveraging Java EE and dynamic infrastructure to enable a shared resource, on-demand scalable infrastructure – without server virtualization

Many pundits and experts allude to architectures that…

Why would miscreants bother with other routes when they can go straight to the source?

People concerned with security of the cloud are generally worried about illegitimate access of…

How to leverage a “private virtual cloud” such as Amazon VPC with your own dynamic infrastructure

A couple of blog posts on Amazon’s recent announcement of its VPC (Virtual…