When you use the Table Services API in Windows Azure what is really doing under the hood? I think I read somewhere that this is not using SQL Server. Is it doing a hash table and then filters are really running like map/reduce actions? I'm really new to this stuff and I'm curious to what it is really doing. ...
This question is partially related to an older question (Any CMS is Google App Engine compatible?) , but is slightly more general. It seems that in most CMS systems, the most fragile failure point is the database. Traditional database implementations scale poorly and will never be able to handle unforeseen spikes of traffic. Since Goo...
I'm looking for examples of successful cloud computing migrations with any of these attributes: High traffic In depth explanation of what they did: Did the go with an internal cloud, IaaS, PaaS, or some hybrid approach? Did they have to rewrite any code? Did they have to migrate data structures? How successful was the migration in te...
Hi, Experts I wanted to make a web application through which : user(end user) can create his own web application online. which will be integrated with the databases and application/web servers and user can also publish that application withing that application only... Doing some research i come to know it goes under category...
Possible Duplicates: What is Cloud computing? What is cloud computing? Sorry for asking some Simple Question. But I cannot clearly understand the needs of Could Computing. or better to say I am confused about what actually Cloud Computing is. I've seen a lot of articles on this topic. But they were non technical and I cannot...
Hi Everyone, I am currently in the early stages of my project which is an ERP application that I plan to sell to enterprise clients. I heard about the Force.com platform but I'm confused on what benefits will I gain if I use it and not develop my own. Can you please explain why should I use Force.com or any PaaS? Regards, ...
Has anyone used MikeCI or Cloudbees for their continuous integration usage? Has anyone explored the use of SaaS for build automation including guys like codesion with hosted version control for example? ...
Is there any general standard that defines what is a SaaS and what is a PaaS. The 2 seems to be used interchangeably? My guess is that everything is SaaS, so is there something about PaaS that makes it different from SaaS and better called PaaS? ...
I can't see a reason why we couldn't do the same thing Heroku does for an ASP.NET website. Anyone care to object? ...