Most of the applications are architected around RestAPIs these days, be it for layering or for integration. All leading web technologies enable building RestAPIs with ease. However, there are few design considerations that are neglected.…
Stack Overflow receives more than 670 million page views per month and they achieve sub-second performance for all their pages. This is truly commendable. The more admirable fact here is that they achieve this with…
Azure has been constantly adding more and more services horizontally. From where it started as a narrowed PAAS for simple web application, it has expanded its horizons rapidly in the areas of IAAS, Big Data,…
Azure’s web and business editions are going to be sunset from September 2015. You can notice the alert message of the retirement in the portal. As an alternate, Microsoft has introduced new service tiers –…
All these days we have been buying mobile phones from Amazon, but now you can get Mobile as a Service from Amazon Web Service. I haven’t seen a technology that has been growing like AWS cloud. You…
We would all agree that ASP.NET has come a long way from its first version. IMO the next version Asp.Net 5.0 is the most drastic change that ASP.NET has done so far (leaving the addition…
Growing Need for High scalability It’s amazing to look at how application architectures have evolved over the past decade. The journey from mainframe applications to current mobile applications has proved many wrong on what they…
With the web 2.0, online authentication has evolved. Social networking platforms provide unique opportunity for online businesses to bring their products up close to the customers in their virtual lives. User behavior on these sites…
This post is a synopsis of the best practices suggested by the market leaders. It serves as a basic guidelines cloud architects should keep in mind while developing applications. Design for failure: Imagine every possible…
What is the nature of the security issues you might face while delivering your solution on Cloud? The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has put together a list of the nine most prevalent and serious security threats…
Sometimes risk is compensated with opportunity” – this statement is true for any business. However, when it comes to “cloud” the opportunity is enormous that it’s worth facing the risks through proper mitigation and planning.…
Cloud migration can pose a lot of questions – Which applications to migrate? Which public or private clouds? Which applications in which cloud? What security standards to follow? What unknowns should I be aware of?…
