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Random Postings on Application Delivery, Development, and SOA 



October 14, 2009

Dynamic Infrastructure Makes Static Connection Limitations Obsolete

One of the benefits of Infrastructure 2.0 is connectedness: the ability to collect and share pertinent data regarding the health and performance of applications and infrastructure services. Based on that data a dynamic infrastructure can adapt on-demand and make decisions that respect real capacity limits, not artificial ones.
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October 13, 2009

Paradox: When Cloud Is Both the Wrong and the Right Solution

Cloud offers an appealing “pay only for what you use” that makes it hard to resist. Paying on a per-usage hour basis sounds like a good deal, until you realize that your site is pretty much “always on." Ironically the answer to this problem is ... cloud.
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October 12, 2009

Duty Calls: Data Portability in The Cloud is an Application Integration Problem, Not a Cloud Problem

Spectacular “cloud” failures over the past few weeks have raised the hue and cry for portability and interoperability across clouds for data.The problem is that the cry is based on the false assumption that a “cloud service” is the same as an “application service.”
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October 9, 2009

The Thing Private Clouds Can Do that Public Clouds Can’t

When an admin brags they can do some task with their eyes closed there may be hidden process inefficiencies that orchestration can uncover. But the orchestration in a public cloud is effectively done for you, with little opportunity to design based on your organization’s operational processes. Orchestration in a private cloud, however, is all up to you.
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October 8, 2009

Infrastructure 2.0 Is the Beginning of the Story, Not the End

The term “Infrastructure 2.0” seems to be as well understood as the term “cloud computing.” It means different things to different people, apparently, and depends heavily on the context and roles of those involved in the conversation. This shouldn’t be surprising; the term “Web 2.0” is also variable and often depends on the context of the conversation. The use of the versioning moniker is meant, in both cases however, to represent a fundamental shift in the way the technologies are leveraged by people.
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October 7, 2009

Long Live(d) AJAX

The problem of AJAX, interstitial request patterns, and the effect on the performance and availability of your applications.
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October 6, 2009

You’re Asking the Wrong Question About Virtual Appliances

Here’s the real question to think about when you’re talking about virtual appliances: Did you ever notice that cloud providers don’t build out their infrastructure using virtual appliances? devcentral.f5.com

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October 5, 2009

Using Network-Side Scripting to Implement Mock API Endpoints

Network-side scripting is an elegant way to augment or implement mock endpoints and even production-quality APIs for any application, but particularly for Web 2.0 and RESTful focused APIs. devcentral.f5.com

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October 2, 2009

Linux is Not the Answer to Security Problems

Malicious links served up in a browser are OS agnostic. They don’t care about the OS because the target is people, not technology. devcentral.f5.com

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October 1, 2009

Excuse Me But Is That a Gazebo On Your Site?!

There are few things in reality that can match The Gazebo in its ability to evoke fear and suspicion amongst gamers. The links on your web site may be one of them.
via devcentral.f5.com

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