: January 2013

Rackspace and AppFog and Beer, Oh My!

Apps and Beer are good, but add a free iPad and you’ve really got a party. Rackspace and AppFog are throwing a Happy Hour on Thursday, February 7 at AppsWorld in San Francisco, and we’re asking developers to create an app that helps us choose the beers that will be served at the party. Because, you

January 31, 2013 2 Comments Read More

AngularJS: the beauty of concision

Some of you might remember a Backbone blogging engine I made a while back (here’s the code). It certainly wasn’t the most advanced use case for Backbone, but I think that it did a decent job of elucidating some of Backbone’s features: event-driven responsiveness, templating, collections, and so on. It was also a great learning

January 23, 2013 18 Comments Read More

What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming

4Gb/s, 10k requests per second, 2,000 nodes, 3 datacenters, 180TB and 8.5 billion requests. Design, deploy, dismantle in 583 days to elect the President. #madops – Scott VanDenPlas, Obama for America IT team From the standpoint of tech geeks like myself, the IT operation behind Obama for America was extremely impressive. Why? Because the operation

January 17, 2013 31 Comments Read More

The AppFog Teams feature is now in public beta

Collaboration has always been an essential part of coding. While plenty of solid programmers operate lone wolf-style, coding has throughout history been primarily a collective venture–from the first teams of scientists hacking on ENIAC back in the day up to our slightly-more-advanced present. Nowadays, a variety of tools exist to make group collaboration easier and

January 10, 2013 Comment Read More

Announcing the Winners of the AppFog Cloudy New Year Resolution Contest

Thank you to everyone who shared their Cloudy New Year Resolutions in our recent contest. See all of the entries in the comments section of the original blog post. And of course, a big shout out to our contest sponsor Cloud Foundry! We’ve had a chance to review all of your smart and funny resolutions,

January 9, 2013 7 Comments Read More

PaaS First; IaaS Second: Five Reasons to Select Your PaaS First

In this guest post, Mark Geene along with Vineet Joshi, Co-Founders of Cloud Elements, an AppFog integration partner, provide a perspective on why selecting the right PaaS is one of the most important decisions you can make in designing your cloud application. Are you building your cloud application directly on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider vs. using

January 9, 2013 0 Comments Read More

AppFog Continues to Grow Ecosystem

If you’re a Platform – success is dependent upon your Ecosystem. And our ecosystem just keeps on growing! This week we welcome two of our developers’ favorite Add-On Partners — Logentries and Xeround. With the addition of these two fantastic partners, we believe we are starting to realize the promise of this ecosystem – and

January 8, 2013 6 Comments Read More

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