I just did an interview with Ricky Ribeiro, who is online content manager of BizTech Magazine. It was published last week as part of the Q&A series of Must Read IT blogs. In response to Ricky’s great questions, I shared thoughts on a broad range of topics, including blogging, cloud computing, and technical innovation in general.
The following is part of the article. For full coverage, please check out here, where you can also find links to interviews with other top IT bloggers. Read more... (1107 words, estimated 4:26 mins reading time)
Last November I posted several jobs from our software team, they were all filled. As VCE grows rapidly at a runrate of $800M at the end of last year, we are now having more jobs. In my group, I have two development jobs opened. Should you be interested or know of someone who may be interested, please let me know. My VCE email account is like <firstname>.<lastname>@vce.com, and my twitter is here. Besides these two, there are many other jobs at VCE covering almost all technical aspects. I can help refer you to our recruiters directly as well. Read more... (665 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)
In the world of VMware, “view” is an overloaded term which is used in desktop, vSphere APIs, and PowerCLI. Outside VMware, you can also find it in MVC architecture, which basically divides a software system into model, view, and controller. This separation has become a basic programming paradigm in modern software design and development. Read more... (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
If you are familiar with agile processes, it’s most likely you also know of, or even practice, test driven development (TDD). Several years ago I read the book Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck, and found the idea pretty interesting. After that, I rarely found myself using or even thinking about this methodology. I am not saying that test driven development does not make sense, but that it is not the approach working for me, and maybe some others as well. Read more... (501 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)
A virtual appliance is a virtual machine preinstalled with operating system, middleware, and applications. It’s ready to run after a few configurations after powering up.
The benefit of delivering a virtual appliance is obvious – it offers better out of box experience due to simplified installation/configuration and complete isolation from other applications. The disadvantage is also obvious in that it potentially uses much more system resources than sharing a virtual machine with other applications. Like any solution, it’s all about when and how you use it with what for best results. This can be a long discussion by itself. Read more... (466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)
While working at VMware, I always wondered what Cisco Nexus 1000V looked like from VMware vSphere API. Because I didn’t have access to such a system, I had no way to investigate further. This remained a myth to me until I joined VCE where I found many Vblock systems with Cisco Nexus 1000V as part of standard configuration.
Within VMware vSphere API, there are two managed object types defined related to distributed virtual switch: DistributedVirtualSwitch, and VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch. As you can guess, the latter type is a subtype of the first one. Read more... (477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)
Three months ago, I wrote an article Random Thoughts on IT Automation. I think it’s a pretty good style for capturing ideas without worrying much about content organization and flow. So I decide to use it again on software design which I have been practicing and thinking for many years.
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InfoQ, one of my favorite sites on software, recently posted an article Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2012. If you missed the conference but are still interested in recent trends of software development, it’s definitely a great read.
I browsed through the article, and found several interesting points there including the comments on Spring framework that VMware bought in 2009. In the following, I just list a few interesting or surprising comments and tweets from the article. If you are interested who made the comments based on which session, just check the original article. Read more... (434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)
Weeks ago, ThoughtWorks published a new issue of Technology Radar compiled by its senior tech leaders. It has done a great job to track latest technology and market trends since 2010 (for archives, scroll to the bottom of this page). Read more... (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)
Recently I started to build a stand-alone Java application. The first thing I thought of was to use Eclipse, which I have been using since 2000. As you may know, the Eclipse family has a framework called Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) for building standalone application. In fact, Eclipse IDE is now built on top of the Eclipse RCP framework. Read more... (619 words, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)
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