Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

A few days ago, Amazon AWS announced the general availability of ElastiCache, a new distributed, in-memory caching service which complements the storage services included in the AWS platform. ElastiCache enables traditional caching capabilities to applications running in the AWS cloud.

During our recent Tellago Technology Update about cloud platforms, we received a number of questions related to equivalent capabilities in the Windows Azure and Amazon AWS platforms. That’s right, although Windows Azure is positioned as a Platform as a Service(PaaS), the fact of the matter is that there it includes many Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) capabilities that are comparable to the Amazon AWS stack.

Today at 2pm I will be hosting our monthly Tellago Technology Update. This time we are going to take an in-depth look at cloud computing platforms from an enterprise developer perspective.

The configuration authoring experience remains one of the main challenges of .NET applications. Every time we need to create a new configuration files, we find ourselves going to MSDN or similar websites and trying to figure out the structure of different configuration sections and the sad thing is that we

Story:Bob is an IT Professional (ITPro) responsible for maintaining dozens of enterprise .NET applications. One day, Bob gets a call informing him that one of the applications he is responsible for have stopped working after some changes in the configuration were applied. After hours troubleshooting the application without any positive results, Bob decides to involve the developers who built the new version of the applications. A few hours later, one of the developers finally finds the configuration sections and component that introduced the. Bob wants to roll back the changes in the configuration file but he realizes that he doesn’t have a copy of the previous file and have to asks the developers to give him a copy of the old configuration file. Bob is very frustrated. Bob HATES .NET.

Reusability, or the lack of it, is one of the main problems with the .NET configuration experience. How many times do we find ourselves creating the same configuration sections over and over again as part of our .NET applications? And then when those configuration settings change we have to go change it on 20 different places.

Today Tellago is very happy to announce the open source release of Hermes, a new publish-subscribe messaging technology based on MongoDB and RESTful Services.