mrjcleaver
#springone2gx looks very interesting. Custom apps for corporates can be rapidly built in Grails, Spring, Vmware & embedded in corp wikiJul 30, 2010 6:45 AM
Chris Richardson
Author of POJOs in Action
Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the recently published book "POJOs in Action". He runs a consulting company that helps development teams become more productive and successful by adopting POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
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Leave a broken test - a great example of why that's an excellent idea
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007
Today, I was reminded why it's a good idea to end a programming session with a failing test (suggested by Kent Beck in his TDD book). Last week I went to the excellent QCon conference and hadn more »My SpringOne talk on building applications with Spring is now available
Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2007
At SpringOne 2007 I gave two talks. The first was on improving application design with a rich domain model. The secon more »I'm looking forward to the Colorado Software Summit
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007
It's a busy three weeks. This week I'm focussed on developing my client's application. But last week I was in Dallas tea more »Getting to know your application
Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2007
When I review a client's application I need to quickly understand and analyze a large of amount of code. Up until now I've relied on open source tools but I am now more »Presentations
Running Java and Grails applications on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is ideally suited to running Java applications. It lets you develop using standard Java software packages such as Tomcat and MySQL and rapidly deploy applications on servers that are provisioned and managed via a web more »Developing with Amazon Web Services
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is probably the best known web service from Amazon but itâs not the only one. There are other highly scalable and reliable web services that you can use in your Grails applications including the Simple Storage Serv more »Running Java and Grails applications on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
By Chris Richardson
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is ideally suited to running Java applications. It lets you develop using standard Java software packages such as Tomcat and MySQL and rapidly deploy applications on servers that are provisioned and managed via a web services API. And, with its pay as you go pricing model, Amazon EC2 enables startups to launch their application without any upfront investment in computer hardware and allows enterprises to reduce costs and become more agile.
However, because it is a cloud, some aspects of Amazon EC2 are very different than a traditional, physical computing environment. In this session you will learn about those differences and how they impact how you handle security, networking, storage and availability. We describe how to use EC2 and the other Amazon web services to develop and deploy Java applications. You will learn how to use EC2 availability zones to deploy highly available applications. We also discuss how to architect secure applications for Amazon EC2.
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Developing with Amazon Web Services
By Chris Richardson
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is probably the best known web service from Amazon but itâs not the only one. There are other highly scalable and reliable web services that you can use in your Grails applications including the Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and SimpleDB, a non-relational database. Although, using these web services couples your application to Amazon, they let you build highly scalable applications without the pain and cost of having to develop your own infrastructure.
In this session you will learn how to use these web services. We describe the various open-source Java libraries for interacting these web services including JetS3t and Typica and how to integrate them into your Grails development model. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of these web services and their typical uses cases.
