Learn about the different application programming interfaces for the cloud and how developers can leverage these interfaces to accelerate the application development process. This topic covers Python, Ruby on Rails, .Net, Web services, WSDL, SOAP, REST, RESTful, JSON, Amazon Machine Image, OVF image, Amazon Machine Image, AMIs and Azure.
Developers discuss pros and cons of Force.com
SearchCloudComputing.com | 08 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - At the Cloudforce conference in Boston, users swapped stories about their experiences building applications on Salesforce.com's Force.com platform.
IBM, Microsoft, Zend and others to create PHP cloud API
SearchCloudComputing.com | 01 Oct 2009 ARTICLE - IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix, Rackspace and GoGrid have partnered with Zend Technologies to create an open-source API for cloud application services based on PHP.
Cloud news dominates VMworld 2009
SearchCloudComputing.com | 04 Sep 2009 ARTICLE - This week: Top stories at VMworld 2009 include VMware's vCloud Express announcement, Xen Cloud Platform and multiple new public cloud services.
Cloud computing programming API tutorial
SearchCloudComputing.com | 14 May 2009 LEARNING GUIDE - In this tutorial, we will dive into the more interesting sites with resources and tips on development. Find out about the trends for APIs in emerging cloud computing architectures.
cloud cartography
14 Oct 2009 WORD - Cloud cartography is a scheme for pinpointing the physical locations of Web servers hosted on a third-party cloud computing service. The goal of cloud cartography is to map the service provider's infrastructure in order to ...
MapReduce
19 Aug 2009 WORD - MapReduce is a software framework that allows developers to write programs that process massive amounts of unstructured data in parallel across a distributed cluster of processors or stand-alone computers. It was developed at ...
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