AppScale

Emulating Google’s Cloud Pub/Sub on Apache Kafka

In cloud applications composed of micro-services, there are a number of ways to send data between services, but they all have their share of problems. Sending messages directly between two endpoints is simple and requires no additional services…

1.5 Billion Reasons Why Your App Needs to Enter the Chinese Market — And How to Do It

Entering China remains a complicated venture for many companies. How can apps scale the Great Firewall without running afoul of laws?

Platform-as-a-Service Versus Infrastructure-as-a-Service (PaaS vs IaaS)