Tag: Amazon cloud

I often get asked about automated testing of user interfaces of Android applications. Amazon released a service on AWS called Device Farm to support user interface (UI) testing, this seems to be a good time to take a look. UI testing can be immensely frustrating due to it’s inherent fragility. It often seems that as […]

One of the most important aspects of application design is the storage tier. For many developers a relational database has traditionally been the engine of choice. While that is often a good solution, the cloud has certainly brought other options to light. NoSQL is increasingly gaining popularity as an alternative that offers internet-class scalability when […]

Last week I was on a consulting assignment for a client that is interested in cloud computing but concerned about the security of the cloud. A private cloud is something that could clearly benefit this organisation but then the question arose about how they would provision and deploy a solution and what would the skill […]

With the rapid growth in Cloud Computing, Learning Tree provides a growing number of Cloud Computing courses designed to equip attendees with the skills required to gain the maximum benefit for their organisations from Cloud Computing. Current courses offered include : Cloud Computing Overview Cloud Computing Technologies: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction Securing the Cloud Windows […]

Back in October last year I posted an article titled ‘How Dedicated is Your Private Cloud ?‘. The main theme was that whilst organisations like Amazon offer private clouds on Amazon infrastructure, your virtual machines may actually be co-hosted on the same physical hardware as other organisations virtual machines. What is private in such scenarios […]