On Demand Economy

From groceries to phone repairs — the future is on demand

SaaS Ecommerce Vs. Hosted Ecommerce

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a SaaS based…

Database — SQL ,NoSQL

What is this debate on databases ?

We have many “Millions of users” talk these days with many large services serving lot of users. This takes us quickly to the thought of how to scale our service — roughly the starting point on the database…

Programming Stack for Web

What should you hook on for the next cloud service ?

Let us talk about the web backend (or server side) programming language with the associated frameworks and libraries. Enough (and probably more than required !) choices…

Easy WebApp on AWS

Choose the right service to build easy on AWS

A Cloud service Architecture

Birds eye view of a cloud service.

Trying to present a birds eye view of a cloud service. If you leave out lot of specifics, then it looks very simple (and possibly generic) !

Worker vs Responder in Cloud

Type of clusters on cloud

We use clusters on cloud — In most simplistic term it is a group of servers with a mechanism to load distribute and balance. And this gives the main power of cloud — scale based on need. Servers are added when…

Cloud and Wine

Is cloud the old wine in new bottle ? Not really.

Servers and server based computing existed long ago. In the days of Mainframes, monolithic servers were the norm. Users used to access them using “dumb” thin clients.

Cloud Powered Apps

Should my application take advantage of cloud ?

We keep hearing cloud everywhere… Is this for me ? Should my application take advantage of cloud ? Or should it fully move to cloud ?