What are cost effective VPS solutions for development, build, and deployment needs especially when working in a very iterative environment. I'm not thinking about individual projects but more generally that can be applied to a development shop with agile needs ...
I have a question related to PKI Infrastructure , should an organization go with Microsoft PKI or an independent separate PKI Infrastructure ? Is there any licensing restrictions if I user Microsoft PKI Infrastructure ? Or should I get an independent PKI infrastructure from a vendor that offer PKI TSA and SP(Signature Proof) Infrastruct...
Hi All, I guess this question is bordering to a Server Fault question. I'd like to know the best configuration for exposing an internal application (in this case a load balanced Asp.Net MVC application) for external access. More details about the situation: The Asp.Net MVC Application is currently running on 2 servers The 2 servers a...
Hi All, I am running a heavy traffic site and our server is beginning to get to its limits, at the moment the entire LAMP stack is on one box (not ideal). I would like to move the database onto it's own box or onto a cloud service, but from my previous experience moving the database off the same box as the webserver increases the laten...
I have uploaded a same file to two different sites it had 30% time difference what are all the major factors affecting this? and what should i do to increase my sites upload speed? ...
Hi to all, I've created a web application, and now i want to build some REST APIs to make it programmable by third party developers. Then, i want to build some client libraries in some popular languages (JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, etc) to make devs confortable using my service by avoiding them to parse by hand the JSON response of each requ...
I am curious, what is the infrastructure used for the following websites : Stackoverflow, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook ? (or any other social networks) ...
Hi all, I want to introduce Jira and Perforce for my personal projects at home. The question I have is about infrastructure. How do you setup your personal production environment? Do you have an own server at home that hosts source control and project management, do you use a rented server or does this all run on your (main) development...
I want to set up an internal chat server for our medium-sized development team (10ish people). Ideally the system would have the following properties: Access via desktop clients as well as a web-interface Persistent group chat rooms Logging of chats with a web interface with search Some easy way to share screenshots Ability to hook in ...
Having a look at this code http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee862406%28VS.85%29.aspx It says "Add the Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management assembly to your project" but i cant seem to find out where to get Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management from. ...
First of all, we are in C#, WPF, desktop application (can be .NET 3.5). I need to show login window when application starts, if login succeeds, hide login window and show main app window. In addition, when the main window is closed, one should see login window again. If login window is closed, application quits. Bonus to make it harder...
Dear all, I am new to the world of IT business (serious) development but I have in mind a business idea and still trying to vizualize how the overall infrastructure should work. I have done some few research for a good technology to deliver the solution. I am very inclined to use Python, MySql, Django (Apache) on the server side and so...
I want to know if there is any open source projects for messaging infrastructure. It will cover most fuctionalities listed in "Enterprise Integration Patterns". I know there are some open source ESB products which are following this book. But it seems they are too heavy. I only want an elegant messaging infrastructure. Thanks in advance...
Hi, once in a while you have to draw a picture of your (planned) IT architecture/infrastructure on a whiteboard. Sometimes there are only IT people in the room, sometimes not. But anyhow, usually you just want to depict your IT systems or architecture more or less as a sketch and not in full detail. What I want to ask now is, which ste...
Hello! If one were to create a site where users could upload images in various formats (JPG, PDF, etc.) and process that image into one monochrome GIF copy and a PDF, what would be the best infrastructure for doing so? I know that there is already a question about image processing infrastructure, but I would like to know what specific ...
Hi, I was sitting in a presentation where i was told it is ok to have a physical box (virtualized into two) where one resides in the DMZ zone and the other resides in the secured zone. I found that such an approach smells bad. Is there any production environment that uses such an approach. I don't have a lot of experience in this spac...
Hello Sharepoint experts ;) Let's say we have some distributed developers in different countries working on the same sharepoint project. Problems that they might face including (but not limited to): webparts deployment & debugging which doesn't work anywhere but the server. how can they apply source control over created sharepoint p...