Cloud Computing

Cloud Databases are a new type of non relational (key-value oriented) databases which are used for storing internet scale data and provide easy programmatic access. Databases like Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Project Voldemort and many others falls in the category of non relational databases and has been widely used and are quite popular.

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Posted by Kashyap Chimanlal Santoki at 05:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Despite all the hype surrounding the cloud, enterprise customers are still reluctant to get their hands wet. The reason… security.  Industry verticals like Banking and capital markets, Defense and other high risk projects give far more weight age to security and fail safety than marginal reduction in capital expenditure. Undiscovered security holes, which lie hidden inherently in the OS for decades, may cause much higher damage when the whole system is exposed to the brute force hacking power of the public internet.

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Posted by Kiran C Nair at 06:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

In this post on the MYOC cloud development series, I will share an offline processing design pattern where certain computation tasks are offloaded to another execution task using queues and that can help reducing the overall processing time of online transactions. This is a very useful pattern to use, if you plan to build highly scalable and compute intensive application on the web today. This patterns is also used by many popular websites. Here I will demonstrate how we've used this pattern to help reduce the poll creation time.

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