Last friday I presented Elastic Grid to the local Java Open Source developers group called OSSGTP. The audience of this group usually is made of skilled Java developers working on many famous Java projects, such as Spring, Hibernate, XWiki, eXo Portal, Restlet, jGuard, JCapthcha, etc (sorry, I probably forgot to cite many of them…).
This talk lasted 2 hours and half and was really interesting because of its format: this session was highly interactive and I was asked many questions about AWS and Elastic Grid.
The content of the talk was pretty much the same as the one Dennis and I did at JavaOne, except that I added two other demonstrations illustrating what EG (Elastic Grid) brings to the developers for ease of deployment of JEE applications. The first demonstration illustrated a deployment of XWiki whereas the second one was focused on eXo Portal.
For both demonstrations, I showed how EG is actively monitoring the processes it started when deploying the applications/servers. I simulated some crashes by killing some applications servers and could explain how the application servers were handled.
The feedback I received the day after, such as the blog post from Nicolas Martignole (in French only, sorry…), was really great and I truly thank all the participants.
Many news related to the Elastic Grid project should come soon, so stay tuned :=)
During JavaOne 08, it’s been hard to update the blog. Here are below all the interesting things you may have missed.
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
- Amazon lowers data transfer costs! This price cut is especially interesting if you do transfer from outside of Amazon infrastructure more than 40TB of data per month. They also introduced a new tier.
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
As said previously, I’m going to JavaOne this year for a BoF on Elastic Grid.
I will arrive at San Francisco on April, 30th and leave by May, 13th.
If you’d like to talk to me when I’m there, feel free to drop me an email at jerome DOT bernard AT elastic-grid DOT com.
I would be pleased talking with you about Amazon services, Rio and Jini, or whatever else…
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
- Amazon Fulfillment Web Service: two sets of APIs used in order to track shipments to Amazon fulfillment centers and from Amazon fulfillment center to the customers, via AWS Blog.
- boto 1.1a: a new release of boto, the Python library for Amazon Web Services, is now available…
Entries about Amazon Web Services:
O’Reilly should release a new book called Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (Programming) in March 2008.
This book looks really promising. I’ll buy the book as soon as possible and will publish a review of it when done reading it.
Here is the book description:
Building on the success of its storefront and fulfillment services, Amazon now allows businesses to “rent” computing power, data storage and bandwidth on its vast network platform. This book demonstrates how developers working with small- to mid-sized companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as the Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications.
With AWS, Amazon offers a new paradigm for IT infrastructure: use what you need, as you need it, and pay as you go. Programming Web Services explains how you can access Amazon’s open APIs to store and run applications, rather than spend precious time and resources building your own. With this book, you’ll learn all the technical details you need to:
- Store and retrieve any amount of data using application servers, unlimited data storage, and bandwidth with the Amazon S3 service
- Buy computing time using Amazon EC2’s interface to requisition machines, load them with an application environment, manage access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as needed
- Use Amazon’s web-scale messaging infrastructure to store messages as they travel between computers with Amazon SQS
- Leverage the Amazon FPS service to structure payment instructions and allow the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers
- Create and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results using Amazon SimpleDB.
- Scale up or down at a moment’s notice, using these services to employ as much time and space as you need
Whether you’re starting a new online business, need to ramp up existing services, or require an offsite backup for your home, Programming Web Services gives you the background and the practical knowledge you need to start using AWS. Other books explain how to build web services. This book teaches businesses how to take make use of existing services from an established technology leader.
