Monthly Archives: September 2010
Building your own IaaS in the Cloud Part 1 – IaaS flavors
So you have this idea, started testing it on your laptop, and it looks good. Now you want to test how it scales out on multiple machines. In cases where your IT department doesn't have available machines inhouse, you might … Continue reading
My JavaOne 2010 Plans
JavaOne 2010 is coming next week. This year will be the first time Oracle is running the show, so it’ll be interesting to see how well (or badly) Oracle treats the community, as there has been lots of speculation recently… Continue reading
Scale-out vs Scale-up
In my previous post Concurrency 101 I touched on some of the key terms that often comes up when dealing with multi-core concurrency. In this post I’ll cover the difference between multi-core concurrency that is often referred to as Scale-Up… Continue reading