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Why the Private Cloud is a Lie and other Myths of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of essential characteristics, deployment models, and Read more…

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Screencast on using Hudson Continuous Integration

The Integrate Button website (from Paul Duvall’s book on Continuous Integration) recently published a screencast on using the Hudson Continuous Integration server – along with Subversion, Ant, HSQL and other tools. Click the image below to get started. The screencast demonstrates the following steps: Checkout source files from the Subversion repository – locally Run the Read more…

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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