Reading Time: 4 minutes In our last post, we compared the leading cloud vendors on technology. In this post, we would like to look at the business benefits of moving to either GAE or Amazon EC2. If you believe the recent hype in the cloud space, including the Gartner reports then you would see that the cloud is here to stay. What would make sense is to keep a Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the past few weeks, we have been getting requests on our website about the way we generated seed data for our multi-tenant application. I thought it would be best to talk about the method that we used as a part of a separate post. If you have been following our blog, you would notice that TE-CON launched the public beta of bookmyhours.com. This is Continue Reading
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently, at a prospective client, we were asked to make a comparison between Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine. Having recently done fairly large-scale projects on both of them, we think that we could make a fairly valid summarization of our thoughts. With this post, I would like to put our thoughts out for consumption and debate. The three parameters on which I would like Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently there has been a lot of interest in the cloud. There have been some major developments that have ignited the interest of many enterprises. It would not be late before enterprises start looking around and find that their competitors have already taken the first step towards the cloud. Before you get to that situation and start panicking, here is a list of best practices Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes As you would have read in our previous post, we used the Namespace API to make the SaaS application that we were working on multi-tenant in a matter of four hours. You would have noticed that we set the tenant name in the NamespaceManager [sourcecode language=”java”] NamespaceManager.set(request.getServerName()); [/sourcecode] Our initial assumption was that the NamespaceManager would continue to exist for the lifetime of the session Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Google recently added support for multi-tenancy for applications via the Namespaces API. We are in process of porting an application to Google App engine. We were thinking of making our application multi-tenant. With the new Namespaces API in our arsenal we decided to give it a try. To our surprise implementing multi-tenancy is easy, we were done with it in couple of hours! With multi-tenancy, Continue Reading
Reading Time: 2 minutes It has been around two months since we started to port an existing application on Google App engine. It used Hibernate for persistence, Wicket framework for web layer and Spring as an Ioc container. Looking at the will it play on appengine we had to change Hibernate to use either JPA or JDO. We decided on JPA purely on the basis of experience we had Continue Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutes By definition, lock-in makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs. That sounds scary. Now let us take a step back and look at all the standards which were available in the traditional world to prevent lock-in. JEE specs sure have a lot of them and that ensures that you would be able Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are porting an existing Wicket application on Google App Engine. This application uses Wicket, Spring and Hibernate. If you read will it play in app engine, you will notice that Wicket is semi compatible and it does work with workarounds. Hibernate on the other hand is incompatible and Spring is fully supported. We began porting this application after changing persistence to use JPA instead Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes A few months ago a dear friend of mine bought a house in New Delhi. It was a house with 3 bedrooms, a decent sized living room and a huge backyard. The backyard was almost thrice the size of the house. Well, it would be a good place to play soccer. Except that he had a different plan. He wanted to set up a power Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Google Dev and production environment has differences. You may run into problems if you expect that application will also run fine on app engine if there are no errors on app engine development server. We are in process of porting an existing application on Google App engine. The application we are building uses Wicket, Spring and JPA. If you read the will it play in Continue Reading
Reading Time: 5 minutes Performance Tuning is one of the stages of taking your application to production which you can seldom avoid. Irrespective of the fact whether you have taken all good performance practices into account, there is something or the other which needs to be tuned before the application is production ready. Performance Tuning takes a different turn when your application is supposed to run on the cloud. Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, while presenting at the IndicThreads Cloud Conference, we got into a very interesting discussion. How to make the existing application that we have multi-tenant without changing a hell lot of code or may be without changing even minimal code. Before we get to that question, let us do a quick recap of multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is the ability to run multiple customers on a single Continue Reading
