IT Weekend

This saturday i am going to have speach about SA in the IT Weekend. This is new expirience for me since in most cases i speach "What is SA in practice" only before our clients and developers. Set's see what happens and i will post short presentation when back.

Tablets market

Just noticed interesting fact in the some overview about Tablet marked share based on the latest results from 2011

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PaaS Platforms

•Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
•CloudBees Run@Cloud
•Cumulogic
•Google App Engine
•IBM SmartCloud Application Services
•Microsoft Azure
•OutSystems Agile Platform
•Red Hat OpenShift
•Salesforce.com Heroku for Java
•VMWare CloudFoundry
•WSO2 Stratos/StratosLive

Hosting

Last week I noticed a lot of posts regarding pricing for Cloud hosting. Most of the authors states that this approach is more expensive in (1,5 - 5) times. As per me it’s reasonable since using virtualization means that hardware is shared and performance is less in comparison with managed hosting and private datacenter.

Here is my thoughts what hosting should be used and for what reasons:
1. Cloud – mostly applicable for startups. Low price for upfront investment, ability grow very quickly since adding new virtual machines are very easy thru API interface. Hosting expenses has less priority than getting more customers in short period of time.

2. Private Data-centers – Applicable for the solution if your operation team has experience for hosting similar SaaS products, Ops processes are established and you have clear vision how new system will be operated and loaded.

3. Managed Hosting – Same as above except – no huge upfront investment for hardware. Please note that managed hosting monitoring will cover monitoring of servers availability and does not cover application and services availability

As a conclusion – please select type of hosting carefully and take in to consideration whole Pros and Cons for your solution and look for one or two steps ahead in the future. Because you may lose a little now but get huge benefit in the future …

Most large-scale web sites technology map

I've found interesting post where author summarize technologies used for most large-scale web sites

Utah SaaS Workshop (Update)

As I promised, in this post I am publishing some materials about Utah workshop. Follow the link you could collect general information about workshop and see presentation what Russ provide. In additional to this I would like share some overview:
1. Personal communication is more valuable and help talk about details and suggest better approaches than general questions what come up during presentation and panel session
2. DB is the major paint for every one
3. Sometime even simple idea what is lay on top may be useful for clients
4. Abstract presentation may not be attractive for the participants – next time we may concentrate on the discussion solution for different problem solving from technical stand point and business impact.
5. Grate event :) and cool participants :):)

Utah SaaS Workshop

This Tuesday, I’ve performing the Q&A session in SoftServe SaaS workshop in Utah. It was the first time when I was as front man and answer on questions related to the SaaS architecture and solutions. Good experience for me, meet new interesting people and of course observe what is an interest of the audience. I will post more details later but as a short summary – it was grate day and we (me, Serge – Director of Architecture Group and Russ – VP of SaaS) successfully hold this event.