Blog
I’ve organized this section into several key categories, in order to make my posts more accessible. Enjoy!
Upcoming Series on Cloud Companies
Hello all, Just wanted to provide a quick update on some research that I'm working on. There's been quite a bit of coverage in the media on various types of cloud solutions, from Infrastructure to platforms and also applications that sit on the cloud. While I've...
Update from the Chimp
Hello my banana loving legions of tech-loving simians. ook! Roadchimp here, back on the road (Istanbul). Since my last post, I've left the sunny English Isles, traveled around Asia for the summer and now on my way to Eastern Europe to deliver some workshops for a...
Cloud Architectures – Storage in the Cloud
Brief Cloud technology is deployed across a wide variety of industries and applications. The term 'Cloud' itself has become so widely prevalent that we've devised additional terms in an effort to describe what type of cloud we're talking about. What's your flavor?...
Technology in Government -Big Data
Executive Brief In this article, we continue our series on technology in government by reviewing Big Data. We plan to review the impact of Big Data in the Government and common applications of technologies to manage this issue. First of all, let's look at some basic...
Cloud Architecture – Implementing Nginx in AWS
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: Nginx...
Technology in Government – Cloud Computing
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...
Technological Transformation 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...
Web Analytics Primer: 1,2,3 Analyze!
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...
Cloud Architecture – Serving Static Content
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...
Exchange 2013 Sample Architecture Part 4: Mailbox Server Role Design
Overview The Mailbox Server role primarily serves the purpose of hosting mailbox databases and providing access to the mailboxes contained within. In this post, we will focus on several key elements of Mailbox Server Design: Storage Design: Not only must we plan and...
Cloud Architectures: The Strategy behind homogeneity
Extract So what is homogeneity? Homogeneity refers to keeping things identical or non differentiable from one another on purpose. For example, Cloud Service Providers create homogenous infrastructure on a massive scale by deploying commodity hardware in their...
Exchange 2013 Sample Architecture Part 3: Design Feature Overview and Virtualization Considerations
Overview In this part of the Sample Architecture Series, we will hone in on several elements of the Exchange Solution design, namely a description of the overall Exchange 2013 solution design, followed by some basic system configuration parameters as well as...
Cloud Architectures: Session Handling
Introduction Deploying applications to the cloud, requires a critical re-think of how applications should be architected and designed to take advantage of the bounty that the cloud has to offer. In many cases, this requires a paradigm shift in how we design the...
Cloud Architectures: Cloud Adoption Roadmaps
The cloud is becoming a viable option for scalability and resilience, but it requires fundamental rethinks in terms of architecting and building web applications in order to fully take advantage of the benefits of moving to the cloud. What we are seeing in the...
Cloud Architectures
Hiya, RoadChimp here! I've spent a lot of time over the past few years working on building scalable computing systems and like many of you, lived through the proliferation of virtualization into mainstream technology infrastructure. In all these years of work around...
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