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After all these years dealing with servers, switches, routers and virtualisation technologies we think it´s time to move our lab into the next phase, the Cloud, specifically the Amazon EC2 Cloud. We are actively working in the Cloud now for different projects, as you´ve seen in previous blog posts. We believe and feel this step [...]

Oracle recently made available a set of AMI images suitable for use with the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform. I found the two images (32-bit and 64-bit) that contain Weblogic (along with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and JRockit) the most interesting of the lot. This article will explain how to set up a basic two-node [...]

Having just got back from the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo Europe held in Prague this week, I thought I’d share my impressions of the event. The higlhights of the conference for me were: GoodData have built a Business Intelligence solution on top of the cloud. It’s a Software-as-a-Service product that they can deploy with [...]

PL/SQL is not exactly the coolest technology around these days but many businesses rely on it for their day-to-day operation. The fact that it is relatively old and does not mean that you cannot apply Extreme Programming(XP) practices to PL/SQL development. A few years ago, Steven Feuerstein developed utPLSQL, a unit testing framework for PL/SQL, [...]

This post is about how to run a simple java application installed in one of your Amazon AMI’s Thanks to the GridGain guys who inspired me when I read this page about running GridGain in Amazon EC2 I am going to assume that you know how to create an Amazon AMI. For information on how [...]