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Article: Rackspace Goes Open Source with APIs |
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July 23 2009
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Some insights into building the CloudServer API from it's Lead Architect. He believes in a world of open clouds where customers can migrate, federate, burst and not be concerned with lock-in. Common APIs are part of the battle so Rackspace built it's own interface embracing easy to use web service standards.
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Article: An Interview With the Architechts of the Cloud Servers API |
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July 14 2009
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The Rackspace Cloud launched their new API for Cloud Servers. The API provides a flexible, programmatic way to Control Cloud Servers. The project's lead architects, Erik Carlin and Jason Seats, talk about designing the API, responding to community feedback, and industry standards around the Cloud.
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Paper: Cloud Servers Developer Guide  |
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July 14 2009
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This document is intended for software developers interested in developing applications using the Cloud Servers Application Programming Interface (API).
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Article: DNS: The Overlooked Cloud Service |
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June 04 2009
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Elastic computing. Autoscale. Pay as you go. It all sounds exciting, and it is. But in the cloud, there are many not so flashy systems that are required to make it work, and often, those can get overlooked. One of those systems is DSN (domain name system), the telephone directory of the Internet.
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Article: Cloud Servers and EC2: Why Persistence Matters |
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April 07 2009
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Rackspace Cloud's Senior Architect, Erik Carlin, examines a fundamental design difference between Cloud Servers and EC2 that has dramatic downstream ramifications: persistence.
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Article: A Quantitative Comparison of Rackspace and Amazon Cloud Storage Solutions |
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February 05 2009
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The Cloud is Advantageous for many reasons and both Rackspace/Mosso and Amazon offer cloud storage solutions. Rackspace is frequently asked to compare Cloud Files enabled with Limelight's CDN with S3 and CloudFront. Many of the questions they are asked revolve around cost and performance (particularly CDN). These are very quantifiable metrics and Erik shares the results of some comparative analysis that Rackspace has done.
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