by samsena | Feb 14, 2013 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Architecture
Brief: In this post, we will be deploying Nginx as an AMI instance in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This post will document our steps to configure and optimize Nginx for serving static pages to a global audience of users. Planning and Preparation:...
by samsena | Feb 10, 2013 | Cloud Architecture, Technology in Government
Executive Brief A number of governments have implemented roadmaps and strategies that ultimately require their ministries, departments and agencies to default to Cloud computing solutions first when evaluating IT implementations. In this article, we evaluate the...
by samsena | Feb 9, 2013 | Cloud Architecture, Technology in Government
Photo (c) A/P Sandy Huffaker Foreword We live in an exciting juncture when the world is undergoing massive and visible transformation. The Internet has given us instant access to information and it has affected how we do things on a global scale. Our children go to...
by samsena | Feb 7, 2013 | Cloud Architecture
Introduction: Since the beginning of the Internet, when people started visiting websites and (hopefully) buying stuff online, businesses have wanted to know exactly what people were doing in their virtual web storefronts. From the humble page view counter, to cookies...
by samsena | Jan 30, 2013 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Architecture
Introduction A number of cloud hosting providers provide optimized static content delivery services, such as Amazon AWS Cloudfront and Microsoft Windows Azure CDN (Content delivery network). In this article, we will explore the elements of a scalable infrastructure...
