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  • "Serverless is Next-Generation PaaS" - InfoQ Talks to Udi Dahan

    At NDC Oslo, InfoQ spoke to Udi Dahan, founder and CEO of Particular Software. He spoke about trends in the software industry - like serverless and microservices - the Particular product suite, and the history of NServiceBus.

  • VMware Will Offer Google Cloud Services and Rackspace Offers vCloud

    Cloud vendors are combining their strengths to provide extra services for their customers. The latest developments include VMware offering Google BigQuery and Rackspace building private dedicate vCloud’s.

  • Xen Bug Forces Amazon and Rackspace to Reboot Their Services

    Last week Amazon Web Services and Rackspace notified customers that their servers would be rebooted as a part of Xen hypervisor patching. This is the second time that AWS has scheduled reboots as a part of its cloud infrastructure maintenance, and AWS published guidance for building applications resilient to reboots and restarts.

  • Udi Dahan on Service-Oriented Composition

    Udi Dahan describes how we in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) where client-side components for one service runs in the same process as components for other services can collect several logical calls into one larger physical call to avoid the high cost, in terms of client to server communication, that otherwise could be substantial.

  • Designing SOA Systems with ServiceMatrix

    The Particular Service Platform has four headline components: ServiceMatrix, ServiceInsight, ServicePulse, and the well-respected NServiceBus. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at each in turn starting with ServiceMatrix, their SOA design tool.

  • Udi Dahan on Event-Driven Architecture and Loosely Coupled Systems

    We should build systems more loosely coupled to achieve properties like robustness, resilience and scalability, Udi Dahan emphasizes in a recent presentation discussing how we can model our systems using more event-driven and asynchronous patterns and some of the challenges developers face when introducing these principles and patterns into development.

  • Developers, Developers, Developers: Rackspace and Others Aggressively Court Key Cloud Consumer

    Recent research has made it increasingly clear that developers hold the key to cloud adoption, and Rackspace is trying to make themselves an attractive option. The Rackspace Developer Discount program is designed to lower the barrier to entry and follows similar efforts by AWS and Microsoft.

  • Rackspace News: SDK for .NET, PowerClient and Mobile

    Latest Rackspace developments include .NET SDK, PowerClient – a PowerShell-based management tool – and PHP mobile back-end.

  • Rackspace Has Entrusted OpenStack to a Foundation

    Rackspace has transferred all the OpenStack code, trademarks and related intellectual properties to the OpenStack Foundation, leaving the cloud computing platform into the hands of the community.

  • Udi Dahan and Oren Eini (Ayende) on NServiceBus 3.0

    NServiceBus 3.0 was recently released and InfoQ talked to Udi Dahan, the creator of NServiceBus, about the new features of the latest release. One of which is the RavenDb integration, a fairly new document data store written in .NET and created by Oren Eini (Ayende). InfoQ also took the opportunity to ask Ayende some questions and what the integration means for his own Rhino Service Bus.

  • RightScale Is One Step Closer to a Unified Cloud API

    RightScale, a company providing unified access to multiple clouds, has announced a new release of their cloud management platform consisting of a new MultiCloud API, a new Add Server Assistant, and a Community Translations.

  • OpenCompute and OpenStack Span Hardware and Software Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Solutions

    A number of announcements around open hardware specifications and open source cloud infrastructure and platform software solutions by collaborators in the OpenStack initiative were made in the past 2 weeks. How does all of them stack up together?

  • Rackspace Releases version 2.0 of Rackspace Cloud for iOS

    Today, developers and system administrators may download Rackspace Cloud 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from the Apple App Store. The new universal iOS application allows developers and admins to manage their Rackspace Cloud deployments as well as customize OpenStack Clouds.

  • Rackspace Load Balancers beta

    Yesterday Josh Odom announced the beta release of Cloud Load Balancers for the Rackspace cloud computing stack. This release comes with their Fanatical Support and a documented API for implementation and management load balancing on their stack, Cloud Servers.

  • Standards and Open Source for Cloud Computing

    Three recent announcements highlight the evolving cloud ecosystem in favor of openness and standards. Red Hat has moved its Deltacloud effort to the Apache Incubator, Rackspace has made its Cloud Files code open source, and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has released two documents laying out the essential functions for cloud computing and descriptive language for them.

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