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July 6, 2012 Leave a comment
On Saturday June 23rd I presented an updated version of my Windows Azure 2.0 Platform Overview at the Hartford Code Camp. Since there were quite a few major Windows Azure announcements on June 7th this was a major update of my existing presentation. In fact I was updating it until the night before the presentation. Read more of this post
June 8, 2012 2 Comments
October 2011 I coauthored a whitepaper on the subject of the software as a Service Development Life Cycle (SaaS DLC). It was published at InfoQ.com—an ‘independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager’.
The SaaS Development Lifecycle (SaaS DLC) is an adaptation of the traditional iterative software development process with additional important phases added. These additional phases—Evaluation, Subscribing, and Operations—are less prominent and implicit for on-premise deployments. However, the activities performed during these phases become critical success factors for a SaaS development and deployment. Read more of this post
May 9, 2012 1 Comment
Definitions
Cloud-burstable applications are those built using an application deployment model in which an application runs in a private cloud or corporate data center and bursts into a public cloud (or clouds) when the demand for computing or storage capacity spikes.
Cloud-portable applications are applications that can take advantage of multiple clouds in order t0 prevent lock-in and/or make the applications more resilient in the face of cloud outages.
Bill Zack serves as a Senior Architect with Slalom Consulting in New York where he drives cloud strategy, architecture, and execution on both Windows Azure and Amazon Web services. Bill served as President of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) for over 7 years.
Motivation
It should be pretty clear why we want to build applications that are cloud-burstable. It would be a great advantage to be able to overflow our resource requirements into the cloud (or clouds). The advantage of this is that the company only has to pay for for extra compute and storage resources when they are needed. Read more of this post
