Azure pulls closer to AWS
It is no secret that Windows Azure has historically lagged far behind Amazon EC2 in the market and in the hearts and minds of most developers. Azure started out life (in 2008) as a somewhat clunky 1.0...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Azure Stores
Microsoft Azure has historically lagged far behind Amazon’s EC2 in the market and in the hearts and minds of most developers. Azure started out life as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering which...
View Article2013 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey
In September David Stock of Pacific Crest (Investment Bank focusing on SaaS companies) published the results of their 2013 Private SaaS Company Survey. The survey covers a variety of financial and...
View ArticleUsing the right database tool
Robert Haas, a major contributor and committer on the PostgreSQL project, recently wrote a provocative post entitled “Why the Clock is Ticking for MongoDB.” He was actually responding to a post by the...
View ArticleEnterprise Adoption of Cloud Technology
Forrester recently published a research note on enterprise adoption of Cloud Technology. The full report can be downloaded here from Akamai.com (after registration). As the report was commissioned by...
View ArticleThoughts RightScale Annual State of the Cloud Report
In January of 2015 cloud portfolio management company RightScale Inc. surveyed 930 users of cloud services for their Annual State of the Cloud report. The findings are both interesting and insightful....
View ArticleBest practices for adding scalability
My thesis is that a you can’t have a good SaaS application that doesn’t scale. By definition the need for scalability is driven by customer demand but there is demand and there is DEMAND. A handful of...
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