From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Overview of Amazon Web Services

1. Introducing Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is one of the early and also the most successful implementations of the Public Cloud. Many well known online properties leverage AWS. Amazon initially started offering a Cloud based Message Queuing service called Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS). They eventually added services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service [...]

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FOSS.IN/2009 – A Brilliant Event!

I have been following this event every year for the last decade (I still remember the very first event where it was called Bang!Linux). I managed to present at foss.in in 2002 and 2003 (It was called Linux Bangalore at that point). Since then this event has become a phenomenon and raises the bar year [...]

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The Anatomy of the Cloud

1. Introduction to Virtualization Virtualization is abstracting the hardware to run virtual instances of multiple guest operating systems on a single host operating system. You can see Virtualization in action by installing Microsoft Virtual PC, VmWare Player or Sun VirtualBox. These are desktop virtualization solutions that let you install and run an OS within the [...]

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