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Google App Engine Has Major Service Disruption

Date: October 26, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: Environment, Technology
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Google EngineGoogle App Engine is down with a major service disruption affecting thousands of customers around the world that use the platform-as-a-service.

The Google  Engine team posted the following update:

At approximately 7:30am Pacific time this morning, Google began experiencing slow performance and dropped connections from one of the components of App Engine.  The symptoms that service users would experience include slow response and an inability to connect to services.  We currently show that a majority of App Engine users and services are affected.  Google engineering teams are investigating a number of options for restoring service as quickly as possible, and we will provide another update as information changes, or within 60 minutes.

Dropbox and Tumblr also reported outages, pointing to a potential much larger issue across the web.

Check the whole article here.

NuoDB

Date: July 31, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: Cloud, Database, SQL
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NuoDBI finally got some time to play around with the beta 7 release of NuoDB that I downloaded a few weeks ago.  Personally I don’t think NuoDB yet gives downloaders enough information on how to get started so I decided to tackle that here myself.

Before I get into the details, why bother?  Who will benefit from this beta?

Read the entire article by Pinal Dave here

ColdFusion MeetUp: Replace Your Iron with a Cloud, with Barney Boisvert

Date: July 16, 2011
Author: rparente
Categories: MeetUp, Seminars, Training
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!

What: “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday August 4 will be “Replace Your Iron with a Cloud”, with Barney Boisvert.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

At Mentor Graphics we’ve just completed the process of moving a number of applications, including www.mentor.com, from dedicated hardware resources to Amazon Web Services.  Best of all, there was almost zero modification to the codebases we migrated.

In addition to the code aspect, I’ll discuss how the non-code bits (load balancing, database clustering, backups, monitoring, etc.) convert as well, since those are all still required regardless of whether you have physical hardware or the cloud under your code.

Finally, I’ll delve into how you can start to really leverage the cloud nature from your application after you’ve migrated off the hardware.  Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting from scratch in the cloud, but once you’ve migrated, it’s not difficult to tweak your applications to really leverage that new found flexibility.

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