DoubleCloud.org

Many folks mentioned their presentations for VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas next month. Let me share mine here.

As you migth have guessed from the blog title, the presentation has a lot to do with both the cloud and application. My presentation title is “Architecting your applications for VMware Cloud.” I will discuss the challenges and opportunities the cloud brings in for application development, especially for the application architecture, and more importantly how to get it done.  Read more... (371 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

After setting up this blog site, I updated my LinkedIn profile. This morning, my colleague Gilbert left me a comment saying “why not hybrid cloud?” I know he was kidding, but it’s a good time to explain why I got this name.

The basic idea behind the name is the following equation:

DoubleCloud = PublicCloud + PrivateCloud

or as some people prefer

DoubleCloud = ExternalCloud + InternalCloud  Read more... (295 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Among many well know improvements like huge performance boost, VI Java API 2.0 has a big feature that we don’t talk much. It’s the full compatibility: one library for all the existing version from 2.0, 2.0 to 4.0.  Read more... (469 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

As mentioned in previous blog, REST is a style than a systematic way defining distributed interfaces. Given how it’s used today, there is a big gap between how it’s used and sophisticated software system development.

The gap between REST and OO  Read more... (877 words, estimated 3:30 mins reading time)

REST or SOAP?

REST is acronym for Representational state transfer (REST). It is a software architecture style for distributed computing system such as Web.

For whatever reason, it got so popular today that many people equals the future of Web Services to REST. It’s true that REST based API is easy to understand with simple HTTP request/response messages in XML format. You can get some work done using text editor plus web browser.  Read more... (474 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Happy new year! A new posting is way overdue after I set up the blog early last December.

Today, we surpassed 5,000 downloads. This is an important milestone for the project as it indicates the adoption of this powerful yet easy-to-use API has reached a new level.  Read more... (247 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)