Databases contain the records that are required for most advanced applications to run. Databases themselves only store data, and you need to create a front end and intelligence for users to be able to interact […]
Serverless Architecture allows you to abstract out Compute from your infrastructure and call compute service from Cloud Functions. This means you get the results of a server like encoding video, or computer vision without needing […]
SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, is the concept of designing infrastructure based on the services that are needed instead of focusing on the servers themselves. Designing with SOA in mind makes it easier to not only […]
Client/ Server Architecture is an Infrastructure style where Client Computers receive Services from Servers. Servers are composed of the Physical Machine, the Server Operating System, Services Software and Configurations. Clients are composed of the Physical […]
In the old days the Operating System was deeply connected to the hardware it ran on and moving the OS to a new machine could be next to impossible. With Virtualization an Operating System becomes […]
Colocation Datacenters allow you to rent space for your servers to run. You can rent from 1U of space to a dozen 42U racks for your equipment. Colocation facilities allow you to run your equipment […]
MaaS, or Metal As A Service, is the ability to rent bare metal servers from cloud providers. You can have root access to the operating system and run the server anyway you see fit. This […]
IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, refers to cloud based services that are not full end user functional products of themselves. Google Drive is an SaaS, AWS Glacier is IaaS. IaaS offers core components of your […]
PaaS or Platform as a Service is essentially “web hosting” for your code. Even run a “serverless” enviornment you still need somewhere to run your code from. PaaS gives you a place to run code, […]
Interacting with SaaS Direct Interaction – By going to the SaaS website or using their native app you can use their service Client Applications – Third party Native applications that can communicate with the SaaS […]
Designing Cloud Infrastructure is fundamentally different that standard Client/ Server infrastructure. You think of Services as separate from the Servers, and design hardware so that entire Servers can be destroyed without effecting the Services offered. […]
Reasons for Load Balancing Fault Tolerance – Load Balancing offers fault tolerance incase a server fails. Server Upgrades – It’s easier to upgrade hardware if you can take entire machines offline without effecting user experience. […]
Clustering ties multiple servers into a single logical server for users to access. Think of it like RAID, but for the whole server. Uses for Clustering Failover – If a physical server fails services will […]
Abstraction is the concept of dividing specific functions of a server into their own individual systems. Much like subcontracting janitorial, or security services out for a building owner. Virtualization Compute – Provided by hardware with […]
Cloud Computing in one form or another is the major architecture for enterprise class infrastructure. Cloud Computing should be looked as a world view more than as a specific technology or product. What is the […]