by edvorkin | Feb 8, 2012 | BigData, Blog
Was reading Martin Fowler blog on polyglot persistence. Love this slide: The full document available...
by edvorkin | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Cloud Computing, Identity and Security, Java
In this blog post: Why install Shibboleth on Amazon EC2 instance (or private cloud) Securing application deployed to PaaS with Shibboleth SP Resolving security concern of the cloud deployment with HTTPS and Private key encryption. Code samples in Java and Groovy for...
by edvorkin | Jan 18, 2012 | Agile ALM, Blog, Programming
It is hard to overemphasize the role of unit testing in continuous delivery process. Unit tests help engineers reduce the number of bugs, hours spent on debugging, and contribute to healthier, more stable software. Unit tests are usually executed on developer computer...
by edvorkin | Jan 9, 2012 | Agile ALM, BigData, Blog, Cloud Computing
The idea for this post come to me after listening to presentation by Ross Mason (mulesoft.com) about different services available online to help programmer with infrastructure, operational concerns. Cloud computing, especially Software as Service, made it possible to...
by edvorkin | Dec 26, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog, Java
While Amazon EC2 Elastic Beanstalk are the most visible PaaS cloud provider, CloudBees Run@Cloud is a low-cost alternative. Build-in integration with continuous-build systems make it appealing to agile software development teams that wish to automate all of the build...
by edvorkin | Dec 14, 2011 | Agile ALM, Blog
Interesting article was printed in InformationWorld magazine that caught my attention: “Where Agile Fails“. It is an overview of continuous delivery, agile application development and devops movement. As a person who works on a daily basis with development...
by edvorkin | Dec 12, 2011 | Blog, Java
This is a short instruction of how to install CA certificate into Glassfish 3.11 application server. There is some specifics for Thawte certificate, but procedure should work with CA certificate from different Certificate Authorities as well. Thawte does not provide...
by edvorkin | Dec 11, 2011 | Blog, Cloud Computing, Java
Recently I had to make a decision to which cloud provider (Platform as a service -PAAS) deploy new application. Usually we deploy applications to our data centers, so this was the first time my team decided to use cloud provider. We wanted to free ourselves from the...
