Bounty Added: I am looking for an online "IDE" that supports Objective-C. Does anybody know of any good online IDEs that allow collaboration, like google docs and spreadsheets do? I'm not expecting a full version of Visual Studio but perhaps a cut down editor capable of HTML, javascript and CSS files, preferably with the ability to...
If you design a distributed application for easy scale-out, or you just want to make use of any of the new “cloud computing” offerings by Amazon, Google or Microsoft, there are some typical concepts or components you usually end up using: distributed blob storage (aka S3) asynchronous, durable message queues (aka SQS) non-Relational-/...
I am looking into Cloud Computing for my company. The one question that I can't seem to get out of my head is; What happens to my data and the ability to use it if the Cloud computing company goes out of business? ...
Amazon measures their CPU allotment in terms of virtual cores and EC2 Compute Units. EC2 Compute Units are defined as: The amount of CPU that is allocated to a particular instance is expressed in terms of these EC2 Compute Units. We use several benchmarks and tests to manage the consistency and predictability of the performance from ...
Setting up a Windows based web application on Amazon's cloud has definitely been a learning experience. Lots of unexpected hoops to jump through, especially to get around the ephemeral local drives limitations. I was hoping to tap into the collective wisdom of those who have walked this road ahead of me and get some insight into best p...
The web service that I want to run on AWS has to store and retrieve user data, present it to the user via a website, and needs to be able to parse the sitemaps of a few thousand sites every 10 min or so. Which components of AWS, such as S3, EC2, and CloudFront do I need to use. A short synopsis about the purpose of each component would b...
Google already has numerous applications that are now running in its computing cloud, e.g a natural language translator. But so does Amazon and Adobe is working on Photoshop Online. I your own opinion, which applications or services would you want to exist inside a cloud being accessible from anywhere. Myself, I would really want an app...
(This relates to Microsoft's SitkaSoapService, in the service reference at https://database.windows.net/soap/v1/) I'm using SitkaSoapServiceClient to access my SQL Data Services database by SOAP. Should I use a "using" statement every time I use this proxy class? Or does it do its own connection handling in a safe way internally? I.e....
I very recently released my ASP.NET MVC based website. I'm beginning planning for when I need to upgrade hosting. I'd like to move to a cloud computing provider and I saw that GoDaddy has a grid hosting solution in beta. Anyone tried to deploy an ASP.NET MVC web app to the GoDaddy grid hosting? If so, how was the experience? According t...
I have a Silverlight application and want to use it, on Azure with Live ID web autentication. Now I search for a good tutorial or solution to use the Live Id Web Authentication in a Cloud application, to use it on Azure. Can someone help me? ...
I'm wondering if anybody tried to integrate mosso CloudFiles with an application running on Google AppEngine (mosso does not provide testing sandbox so I cann't check for myself without registering)? Looking at the code it seems that this will not work due to httplib and urllib limitations in AppEngine environment, but maybe somebody has...
While this question is particular to Azure, I'm sure that it is a common situation for cloud computing in general. I have a list of tasks that I need run at a certain time. With a window's server, I can use Task Scheduler and schedule my program to run at a certain time. I could go a step further and create a windows service that woul...
I would like to add a "tag cloud" to a project I'm working on. I see tons of them via google, but they seem to mostly be "enter an url" type. I'm looking for one which either has either a nice web-accessible api a standalone local executable (linux preferred) a linkable library (c,python preferred) of course, other options and sugg...
I have a Silverlight application where I use LINQ to SQL to store my data. Now I have added this application to an Azure cloud, and want to use an Azure method to store my data. But I don't know whether I should use "Azure Table Storage" or "SQL Data Service", and how I can use it. ...
(This relates to Microsoft's SitkaSoapService, in the service reference at https://database.windows.net/soap/v1/) I'm using SitkaSoapServiceClient to access my SQL Data Services database by SOAP. I can query data by passing a linq statement in a string, such as: Scope scope = new Scope(); scope.AuthorityId = authorityId; scope.Contain...
Does anyone know how sites like www.dropboks.com and other online storage websites are built? What technology? How would you go about developing a simple non-commercial online file storage system? ...
The game is a low graphic (SVG) strategic game. Each server represents a Game Domain with its players. All servers should be able to talk to each other, as players can move (in the game) from domain to domain/send "diplomatic messengers" etc.. We have chosen this idea as it enables us to enlarge the world map endlessly, it enables secon...
I have been looking for cloud computing / storage solutions for a long time (inspired by the Google Bigtable). But I can't find a easy-to-use, business-ready solution. I'm searching a simple, fault tolerant, distributed Key=>Value DB like SimpleDB from Amazon. I've seen things like: The CouchDB Project : Simple and distributed, faul...
What is happening to such distributed in-memory cloud databases as Hazelcast Scalaris if there is more Data to store than RAM in the cluster? Are they going to Swap? What if the Swap space is full? I can't see a disaster recovery strategy at both databases! Maybe all data is lost if the memory is full? Is there a availability ...
I'm comfortable in the MySQL space having designed several apps over the past few years, and then continuously refining performance and scalability aspects. I also have some experience working with memcached to provide application side speed-ups on frequently queried result sets. And recently I implemented the Amazon SDB as my primary ...