http://blog.quadraforte.com Cloud Technology Specialists Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:57:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en via TechCrunch: "...Cloudkick, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that offers a free server management system to businesses, is rolling out its freemium model and additional features. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick’s dashboard allows you to easily ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=79 A few hours ago, Franklin Naval conducted the first hands-on workshop on how to use the disaster coordination tool using Google Maps at the De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB). The participants were students from the VERTSOL (Vertical Solutions for Retail Markets) of the IS (Information Systems) ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=72 Therese Lim of the Southeast Asia Team just posted this. Thanks Google! "... We're very saddened by the losses the Filipino people have sustained during this calamity. To help you stay up to date on the disaster and contribute to the relief efforts, we've put up a Help for Typhoon Ondoy ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=68 Our CEO Franklin Naval has been doing a yeoman's job of updating the maps that are featured on the"Help for Typhoon Victims in the Philippines" landing page hosted by Google. The Philippines is now bracing for the onslaught of a category 5 typhoon named "Pepeng" (international code name: Parma) just right ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=47 I just got this from Quadra Forte CEO, Franknlin Naval - the Typhoon Ondoy Relief Goods Donation Centers map is now up! Other maps of interest that the Typhoon Ondoy Mapping Group (typhoonondoy@googlegroups.com) are working on right now: Typhoon Ondoy Incident Form (http://bit.ly/ondoymapresponse) Typhoon Ondoy Situation Map (http://bit.ly/ondoysitmap) Typhoon Ondoy Locator (better search! within ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=45 GAE FAIL? You can track the #GAE and "google app engine" tweets and also in TechCrunch: "A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was “seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates.” ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=33 A discussion about Heroku: Best Money Ever Spent in HN quickly became a Heroku vs. GAE discussion. Jonathan Siegel writes in his article: "We've been using Heroku for several of our own self-launched products. From iPhone backend applications to our MMOCG (where C = casual). Now that we are used to ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=29 Lakshman has an awesome tutorial on how to deploy Twitter-Follow on GAE. He muses in the end how easy it is to deploy this on GAE: "You don’t bother about deployment, server maintenance or log files. Rather, check out the awesome application admin dashboard and if you run out of the ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=24 Joel Steiner took some pretty awesome notes during the last GAE meetup. He has some concerns though about the future of GAE on the following fronts: Vendor lockin - "If you code to GAE, how can you break your app out of their system and run it on a competitors system ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=21 Everyone's talking about the "cloud" and what would a "killer app" look like. Is SOASTA the killer app that cloud-watchers are waiting for? Reuven Coven asserts as much in his blog post: "Back to what I find interesting about this new scheme; traditionally performance testing has been a kind of "best guess" scenario. ... http://blog.quadraforte.com/?p=17