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Restoring a MongoDB instance

~1 month ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
At App47, our production MongoDB instance is managed by MongoHQ — that is, we use their PaaS to host our data and leave the details of running and...

Intro to MongoDB demo

3 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, document-oriented schemaless database. This short demo, entitled “An Introduction to MongoDB“, provides...

Queuing as a Service via Amazon’s SQS

3 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) borrows what it needs from message-oriented middleware (MOM) but doesn’t lock you in to any one implementation language...

An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Follow along as this demo, entitled “An introduction to Amazon SimpleDB“, guides you through an introduction to SimpleDB, a massively scalable...

JavaScript for Java developers

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting...

Relational Database as a Service

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) offloads the work of maintaining a database to Amazon Web Services, which makes it exceptionally easy to...

On migrating to the cloud

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Considering moving into the cloud are you? Well then, have I got something for you! Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to catch up with Paul Duvall...

Java EE testing with Arquillian

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
I recently caught up with my old friend, Dan Allen, who is a Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist. In this podcast, he explains...

Rapid Android development with JRuby

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
A few interesting pieces of data: 70% of the world’s population has a mobile phone over a million Android devices are activated weekly 1/2 of all local...

The case for Node.js

4 months ago by admin on The Disco Blog.
Not too long ago, I wrote about JavaScript; specifically, I espoused it as a language worthy of a Java developers attention mainly due to the fact that...