The Cloudify Blog

A couple of days ago Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a significant outage in their US-EAST-1 region. This has been the 5th major outage in that region in the past 18 months. The outage affected leading services such as Reddit, Netflix, Foursquare and Heroku. How should you architect your… Read More

For those who didn’t make it out to the Chef User Group meetup on October 19th at 6:30PM PST at Survey Monkey’s HQ, below is a recording of the session that was presented. Follow Sharone on Twitter!… Read More

The blurring line between PaaS and IaaS  The core of IaaS services is centered around  Compute, Storage Network however over the past years the infrastructure moved up the stack and includes more application services such as Database as a Service, Hadoop Map/Reduce, and application lifecycle services. On… Read More

h2. For those who didn’t make it out to GigaSpaces HQ for the meetup below is the recording from the event. Hope to see you next time. Read More

Following Nati’s blog post about big data in the cloud, this post is focused on Cloudify’s integration with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, diving into the integration specifics and how to get your feet wet with running the Cloudify BigInsights recipe  hands-on. The IBM … Read More

In a recent article, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold.  “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,”.. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be… Read More

h2. The Play framework *Play framework* is an open source web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model-view-controller architectural pattern. It aims to optimize developer productivity by using convention over configuration, hot code reloading and display of errors in the browser. The moto… Read More

DevOps and PaaS represent two different paradigms for delivering applications to the cloud. DevOps – DevOps takes an automation approach – with DevOps we basically script the process of installation, configuration and deployment of the application stack. PaaS – PaaS takes an abstraction approach by abstracting the details of the cloud infrastructure from the… Read More

Your Application is Installed on a Cloud. Now What ? Ok, so you installed an application on a cloud and now you want to update it, replace your .war file, modify the DB schema etc. I guess, some of the following thoughts may run in your head : “Now… Read More

Hi Cloudsters, Just a quick update on the things we’ve been working on lately:  Chef Integration We have been enhancing the integration with the DevOps tool Chef. For those who are not familiar with Chef, it is an excellent… Read More

We wanted to share a few brief updates with you to keep you in the loop on all the exciting stuff we’ve been working on here at Cloudify, including our new 2.1.1 release, new features, integrations, and other improvements Feel free to follow our… Read More

Below are the recording of the webinar held a couple of days ago, in case you couldn’t catch it live, as well as the slideshare. We’re currently putting together our list of upcoming webinars for the next couple of months, feel free to suggest topics that you’re interested in… Read More