Taming the Cloud Database with Apache jclouds, ApacheCon Europe 2014

Hazelcast provides scale-out computing capabilities that allow cluster capacity to be increased or decreased on demand. It enables resilience through automatic recovery from member failures without data loss. Hazelcast's programming model allows developers to easily program cluster applications as if they are a single process. It also provides fast application performance by holding large data sets in main memory.

An introduction to Stacki-the fastest bare metal Linux server provisioning tool from the Stacki Atlanta kickoff meetup on 2/23/16 at the Microsoft Innovation Center. Greg Bruno is the VP Engineering at StackIQ.

This document describes Matteo Moretti's company Madisoft's migration of their Nuvola application from on-premise servers to AWS. It involved moving over 60 servers, 1000 databases totaling 4.5TB of data, and 25M media files to AWS using Ansible automation. The migration provided benefits like increased flexibility, horizontal scaling, infrastructure as code, and cost optimization. It took place over multiple environments using tools like Ansible, AWS EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, and was completed in around 50 minutes with no issues for users.

This document discusses configuration management and deployment using Ansible. It provides an overview of Ansible's key capabilities including configuration management, ad-hoc execution, rolling updates, multi-tier deployment and cloud provisioning. It also discusses Ansible's architecture including being SSH-based and agentless, its use of inventory files, playbooks and roles to define configurations. Finally it demonstrates examples of using Ansible modules, tasks, and playbooks to manage and deploy applications.

This document discusses how Chef can be used to deploy and manage OpenStack infrastructure. It provides an overview of Chef's capabilities for infrastructure automation including defining servers, applications, and databases through code and templates. The document also describes the Chef for OpenStack project which provides cookbooks for deploying OpenStack components like Keystone, Glance, Nova, etc. It promotes the community around automating OpenStack deployment and management with Chef.

Dave Peterson's presentation on how Salesforce uses Stacki and Chef to provision and manage thousands of servers. Stacki Atlanta kickoff Meetup on 2/23/16 at the Microsoft Innovation Center. Dave is a Lead Systems Engineer at Salesforce.

Fastly engineer Michael May at OSCON 2015: When it comes to caching, we fall into two categories – those who make phat stacks of cache money and those who suffer from cache anxiety. We know caching aggressively improves performance; however, advanced caching strategies for event-driven content or user-specific content are often neglected for fear of complexity or lack of understanding. In this talk, we’ll cover HTTP caching, old and new strategies for caching historically ‘uncacheable’ content, and secret features of HTTP accelerators like Varnish. Whether you’re already stacking cache or just seeking a prescription for one, you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of caching and accelerating applications that you can take and apply to your Rails, Django, etc. apps.

Apache Traffic Server (ATS) is a fast, scalable HTTP caching proxy server. It allows plugins to be written using Lua, a lightweight scripting language. This provides advantages over writing plugins in C/C++, including easier development, testing, and ability to leverage Lua features. The presentation discusses using Lua with ATS, including exposing ATS APIs as Lua functions, implementing plugins, testing plugins, and security considerations like input validation and sandboxing. Future work may include exposing more ATS APIs and providing input validation libraries.

Peek behind the scenes to learn about Amazon ElastiCache's design and architecture. See common design patterns of our Memcached and Redis offerings and how customers have used them for in-memory operations and achieved improved latency and throughput for applications. During this session, we review best practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns related to Amazon ElastiCache.

Caching has been an essential strategy for greater performance in computing since the beginning of the field. Nearly all applications have data access patterns that make caching an attractive technique, but caching also has hidden trade-offs related to concurrency, memory usage, and latency. As we build larger distributed systems, caching continues to be a critical technique for building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency applications. Large systems tend to magnify the caching trade-offs and have created new approaches to distributed caching. There are unique challenges in testing systems like these as well. Ehcache and Terracotta provide a unique way to start with simple caching for a small system and grow that system over time with a consistent API while maintaining low-latency, high-throughput caching.

The document discusses best practices for using Apache Cassandra, including: - Topology considerations like replication strategies and snitches - Booting new datacenters and replacing nodes - Security techniques like authentication, authorization, and SSL encryption - Using prepared statements for efficiency - Asynchronous execution for request pipelining - Batch statements and their appropriate uses - Improving performance through techniques like the new row cache

This document provides an overview of Hazelcast, an open source in-memory data grid. It discusses what Hazelcast is, common use cases, features, and how to configure and use distributed maps (IMap) and querying with predicates. Key points covered include that Hazelcast stores data in memory and distributes it across a cluster, supports caching, distributed computing and messaging use cases, and IMap implements a distributed concurrent map that can be queried using predicates and configured with eviction policies and persistence.

Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. In this session, we provide an overview of the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances.

This talk will be a walk through the challenges encountered when building a high profile editorial sites. My goal is to present some of the common pitfalls we have encountered at Lincoln Loop and to explain how we solved: * Legacy migration always take longer * devops * Multiple environment * Easy deployment * Responsive design impacts the backend * Journey of an image * Picturefill.js * Danger of reusing published django applications * Caching strategy * Html fragment * Varnish Audience Decision maker that are going to rebuild their magazine Developer bidding for this kind of projects for the first time

This document discusses benchmarking Drupal performance and optimizing it with APC caching. It finds that a plain HTML page serves 1000 requests 32 times faster than Drupal. Installing the APC opcode cache speeds up Drupal significantly by caching compiled PHP files in memory. The document provides instructions for installing APC on Linux and verifying its setup. Other caching techniques like Varnish, Memcache and database tuning are also mentioned as ways to improve Drupal performance.

Jason Cook discusses his experience setting up boot infrastructure for Fastly's caching clusters. He outlines how they moved from using existing tools like Cobbler and Razor to building their own solution called Donner using iPXE to boot machines over HTTP. Donner uses Chef to store machine metadata and configuration which allows the boot process to install operating systems, configure networking, and run Chef on first boot to provision machines.

This presentation explains how to deploy and use the Integrated Caching feature on Netscaler. I gave this presentation to Citrix staff, customers and partners in worldwide in 2011. The presentation covers best practices and gotchas :) Integrated Caching is an excellent feature that can greatly improve the performance of your website.

The document discusses using Apache jclouds to interact with cloud databases. It introduces jclouds as a cloud SDK that allows interacting with multiple cloud providers through a common API. It then demonstrates how to use the jclouds database API to create a database instance on Rackspace, create a database, and add a user, providing code examples for each step.

This document discusses different types of wireless network security protocols and configurations for local area networks (LANs). It describes WEP, WPA, PSK, TKIP, and AES security protocols, explaining their purpose and differences. It also outlines three configurations for connecting devices like computers and an Xbox in a LAN, either through wired or wireless connections using a router.

This document describes PLANET, a system for massively parallel learning of tree ensembles using MapReduce. PLANET can build decision trees on very large datasets in a scalable way. It uses a master node to control the process and MapReduce jobs to handle tasks like finding the best splits when data is too large to fit in memory. PLANET supports techniques like bagging and boosting to build ensembles of trees for better predictive performance. Evaluation shows PLANET can efficiently learn from large datasets and complex models. Future work includes improving support for sampling and high-cardinality categorical attributes.

Tax is a compulsory payment to the government and can be direct or indirect. Direct taxes have an immediate burden on the taxpayer, like income and wealth taxes. Indirect taxes are collected by intermediaries and included in the price, like sales tax. Governments in India levy various direct and indirect taxes. The central government levies income, wealth, customs, excise and service taxes. State governments levy professional, entertainment, VAT and state excise duties. Local governments levy property, water and sewerage taxes. Direct taxes are more equitable but also more complex and unpopular. Indirect taxes are more convenient but also more inflationary and expensive to collect.

This document is a glossary containing vocabulary words organized into categories including animals, professions, rooms and objects, clothing, and transportation. The animals category lists creatures such as goldfish, snakes, sharks, and whales. Professions include occupations like photographer, doctor, chef, and engineer. Rooms and objects contain terms for interior spaces and furnishings. Clothing features items of dress like jackets, pants, dresses and accessories. Transportation covers vehicles and modes of transit.

Belgian wines have a very small share of less than 0.1% of the Belgian wine market, which is dominated by imports, primarily from France. Total Belgian wine production meets only about 0.1% of domestic consumption. To distinguish Belgian wines in this saturated market and justify their higher average price of €11 per bottle, producers need to focus on quality and terroir, educate consumers, and promote through competitions and tastings to build legitimacy and awareness. The marketing strategy of Belgian Wines Ltd. emphasizes developing the brand through understanding local markets and consumers and choosing appropriate marketing mix elements like price, placement in shops and restaurants, and promotional activities.

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This is a very precise presentation " How our Digestive System Works". It could especially help to people related to Pharmaceutical Business.

The document describes Skill Accelerator, a new approach to intensive training that provides interactive training and coaching to improve skills and performance. It offers both generic and customized delivery options including online, in-person, and through a team learning and simulation approach (TLSA). Skill Accelerator covers various skills like sales, customer service, and leadership. It works in three phases - training, coaching, and simulation/debriefing. The coaching session can integrate customized or standard business simulations to test and embed learning while developing critical thinking. Skill Accelerator is a flexible platform that challenges professionals and helps organizations capture and share knowledge.

This document appears to be a list of students' results from the Grade 8 exams administered by the Punjab Examination Commission in 2013. It includes the roll numbers, names, and total scores of 401 students who took the exam at GHSS City Muslim Town (M-1) in Faisalabad. The scores are either numerical values or indicators like "FAIL" to show if a student passed or failed the exam.

Reflexes are rapid, involuntary motor responses to stimuli that can involve peripheral nerves and the spinal cord or higher brain centers. There are several types of reflexes classified by their anatomical location, number of synapses involved, or whether they produce flexion or extension responses. Muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs are proprioceptors that provide feedback to the central nervous system to regulate muscle tone and reflexes like the stretch reflex and Golgi tendon reflex. Abnormal muscle tone like spasticity or rigidity can result from upper motor neuron disorders that disrupt the inhibitory pathways controlling motor neurons.

In this paper, we analyzed the basic tenets of multinational enterprise (MNE) from a theoretical perspective, shedding light on the growing significance of MNEs in today’s global economy. The concept of MNE has been reviewed. We examined two theories of MNE – the trade theory and the transaction cost or internalization theory, in line with emerging global trends. We conclude that no single theory can explain MNE, rather, a combination of theories.

Docker is a key player in the microservices movement and is arguably the leader in containerization technology. That said, there are many ways to “do Docker”. Between the leading cloud providers AWS, Azure, and Google; plus other platform stacks like Docker/Swarm, Apache Mesos – DC/OS, and Kubernetes; it can get confusing.In this session, Michele will bring her customer experiences building solutions across most of these platforms – to provide you with the highlights, the architecture topologies, and some perspective on the way she helps her customers choose the right platform for their cloud, on premise or hybrid solutions.

This document discusses running Java EE 6 applications in the cloud. It provides an overview of Java EE 6 and demonstrates how to deploy Java EE 6 applications on various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. The document also discusses the Java EE 7 specification and upcoming GlassFish Server distributions.

This document discusses running Java EE 6 applications in the cloud. It provides an overview of Java EE 6 and demonstrates deploying applications to various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. It also compares these platforms and discusses how Java EE can evolve to better support cloud computing.

Oracle provides Java EE 6 application servers and databases that can run on various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. These cloud platforms offer virtual servers, storage, databases and additional services that allow flexible deployment of Java EE 6 applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Pricing models vary between platforms and include consumption-based or commitment-based options.

The document discusses running Java EE applications in the cloud using platforms like Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. It provides an overview of deploying Java EE applications on each platform, including how to configure and manage applications on Amazon EC2 and S3, deploy using RightScripts on RightScale, publish to Microsoft Azure using Visual Studio, and the language and server options for Joyent. The document also touches on pricing models and some considerations for evolving Java EE for cloud platforms.

Disaster Recovery Site on AWS: Minimal Cost Maximum Efficiency discusses setting up disaster recovery sites on AWS for minimal cost and maximum efficiency. Common disaster recovery architectures on AWS include pilot light, where a scaled-down copy of production resources is kept running, and backup and restore, where backups are taken and restored in an outage. Customer case studies demonstrate cost savings of up to 70% for disaster recovery sites on AWS compared to on-premises solutions.

This document discusses running Java EE 6 applications in the cloud. It provides an overview of deploying Java EE 6 applications to various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. It also discusses the Java EE 7 specification and how it will further support cloud deployments with a focus on multi-tenancy and elasticity. Lastly, it outlines the GlassFish Server distributions for both open source and commercial use on private and public clouds.

This document discusses running Java EE 6 applications in the cloud. It provides an overview of deploying Java EE 6 applications to various cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, RightScale, Microsoft Azure, and Joyent. It also discusses the Java EE 7 specification and how it will further support cloud deployments with a focus on multi-tenancy and elasticity. Lastly, it outlines the GlassFish Server distributions for both open source and commercial use on private and public clouds.

This document discusses automating the deployment and configuration of virtual machines (VMs) created with Apache CloudStack using Puppet. It provides an overview of CloudStack and its architecture before explaining how Puppet can be used to classify and configure VMs at launch based on custom facts extracted from metadata passed to the VM. The document recommends minimizing templates and configuring all VMs via Puppet for easy management at scale. It also describes how the CloudStack API can be used to programmatically deploy VMs that are then automatically configured by Puppet.

Introduction to Microsoft Windows Azure and the Microsoft Cloud Services for Game Developers. http://europe.casualconnect.org/content.html

This document outlines the agenda for a meetup on cloud computing hosted by StartupDecode. The meetup includes sessions on what cloud computing is, cloud computing on AWS, hands-on tutorials for Heroku and AWS, and a networking apéro. The hands-on portions will guide attendees on deploying a sample Rails app to Heroku with AWS S3 integration for file storage.

The document discusses deploying Windows containers with Kubernetes. It covers building Windows containers, deploying containers on Kubernetes, and operating Kubernetes. Specifically, it shows how to: - Build a Windows container with SQL Server using Docker - Deploy a .NET Core app container to Kubernetes and expose it using a load balancer - Scale the deployment to multiple replicas and observe traffic distribution - Perform rolling updates to deploy new versions of the application

Java EE 6 applications can be deployed to various cloud platforms including Amazon EC2, RightScale, Elastra, and Joyent. On Amazon EC2, GlassFish and MySQL AMIs are used to deploy applications which are load balanced and auto-scaled. RightScale provides server templates and automation tools to deploy Java EE applications on multiple clouds. Elastra allows designing and deploying hybrid Java EE applications across on-premise and cloud infrastructures. Joyent offers high performance Smart Machines running Solaris zones to deploy Java EE applications with root access and dedicated resources.

Java EE 6 applications can be deployed to various cloud platforms including Amazon EC2, RightScale, Elastra, and Joyent. On Amazon EC2, GlassFish and MySQL AMIs are used to deploy applications which are load balanced and auto-scaled. RightScale provides server templates and automation tools to deploy Java EE applications on multiple clouds. Elastra allows designing and deploying hybrid Java EE applications across on-premise and cloud infrastructures. Joyent offers high performance Smart Machines running Solaris zones to deploy Java EE applications with root access and dedicated resources.

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. The presenter discusses the good, bad, and ugly aspects of using Terraform with Azure. The good includes its simple configuration language and ability to integrate with Azure and automate deployments. The bad includes limitations in its language and some errors being difficult to debug. The ugly involves challenges around managing state files and keeping infrastructure definitions well organized. Overall, Terraform provides benefits but also requires understanding its quirks and handling state carefully.