Some breathing room for Google App Engine requests
As promised to Felix here is the code that shows how to give extra breathing room to Google App Engine (GAE) requests that may otherwise be killed for taking too long to complete. The approach is...
View ArticleLast call for SML and SML-IF
The SML working group at W3C has published the “last call” working draft of version 1.1 of the SML and SML-IF (“IF” stands for “interchange format”) specifications. You have until October 3rd to tell...
View ArticleHere comes WSTF
A new Web services-related industry body has been announced today: WSTF (Web Services Test Forum). More details about it from Infoworld. My employer (Oracle) seems to be one of the drivers (along with...
View ArticleNow I know why GAE has been killing me
I haven’t written about Google App Engine lately because I haven’t spent too much time using it. And the time I did spend was mostly consumed fighting JavaScript for some client-side aspects that have...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine is teasing me
Version 1.1.9 of the Google App Engine (GAE) SDK was released earlier this week. The first item in the announcement covers the big news, that developers can “use the Python standard libraries urllib,...
View ArticleLong-running processes on Google App Engine: it finally works
I am probably taking things a bit too personally, but I feel like I just successfully guilt-tripped the Google App Engine (GAE) team. Just last night I was complaining that they were teasing me...
View ArticleThe datacenter as a programmable entity
This is an exciting time for those who want to shrink the computer. They are having a field day playing with devices powered by Android, the iPhone’s Cocoa, Palm’s new WebOS, Windows Mobile, JavaFX...
View ArticleNative “SSH” on Windows via WS-Management
Did you know that you can now SSH to a Windows machine over WS-Management and its is a documented protocol that can be implemented from any platform and programming language? This is big news to me and...
View ArticleUploading a file to a Windows machine via WMI/WS-Management
[UPDATED 2009/6/30: Check the following post for a more practical solution.] Here is a simple way to upload a text (i.e. not binary) file to a Windows machine. Because my interest is to be able to do...
View ArticleFile upload/download and remote program execution using WS-Management – a...
The previous blog post described a way to upload and (in theory at least) download text files to/from a remote Windows machine using WS-Management. In practice, the applicability of the method is...
View ArticleToolkits to wrap and bridge Cloud management protocols
Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud (for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months they have been joined by several other open source contenders....
View ArticleLook Ma, no hypervisor!
Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its corollary, “virtual machine”) is used in so...
View ArticlePaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist platform
I don’t know anyone in Silicon Valley who can code and doesn’t fantasize about writing an accidental killer app. One that gets designed during a long layover in DEN and implemented in a rainy weekend...
View ArticleExpanding on “twitter with a brain”
Chuck Shotton recently made a compelling case (“Twitter with a Brain“) for Twitter tools to allow the user to change the protocol endpoint. That is, instead of always going to twitter.com, you can tell...
View ArticlePaaS as the path to MDA?
Lots of communities think of Cloud Computing as the realization of a vision that they have been pusuing for a while (“sure we didn’t call it Cloud back then but…”). Just ask the Grid folks, the dynamic...
View ArticleSquare peg, REST hole
For all its goodness, REST sometimes feels like trying to fit a square peg in the proverbial round hole. Some interaction patterns just don’t lend themselves well to the REST approach. Here are a few...
View ArticleUpdates on Microsoft Oslo and “SSH on Windows”
I’ve been tracking the modeling technology previously known as “Microsoft Oslo” with a sympathetic eye for the almost three years since it’s been introduced. I look at it from the perspective of...
View ArticleAmazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs
Every time a new Cloud API is announced, its “RESTfulness” is heralded as if it was a MUST HAVE feature. And yet, the most successful of all Cloud APIs, the AWS API set, is not RESTful. We are far...
View ArticleThe API, the whole API and nothing but the API
When programming against a remote service, do you like to be provided with a library (or service stub) or do you prefer “the API, the whole API, nothing but the API”? A dedicated library (assuming it...
View ArticleComments on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs”
A survivor of intimate contact with many Cloud APIs, George Reese shared his thoughts about the experience in a blog post titled “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs“. Here are the highlights...
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