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Grails and Cloud Computing: Part 1 – Amazon EC2
Progress to Date
This entry is a part of the ‘What can you build in 40hrs‘ series– which, in a nutshell, involved an experiment to see what we could build in about typical weeks worth of work. In the last post we effectively completed the basic functional requirements of the application, and now have a working system that can be used to manage two sets of to-do lists as part of a task management application.
Cloud Computing
As part of this effort, we wanted to try something ‘new’ as part of the application initiative. We decided to make one of the system requirements of the application involve its deployment into a Cloud Computing infrastructure– the leading candidates at time of construction being Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and Google’s App Engine.
While both Amazon and Google offer similar infrastructure platforms, as it shall be seen, the level of effort necessary to deploy a stock Grails application into these infrastructures varies greatly.
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posted 18 September 2009 @ 10:24 by don » 8 Comments
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Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 5)
Welcome back to our effort to build a Grails app in less than a week. This post will cover the final functional aspects of the application, after which we can move on to trying to deploy the app into a Cloud Computing platform.
To recap briefly our progress to date:
Part 1: We introduce the basic [...]
3 September 2009 » read » 8 Comments
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Speaking @ PMI Fairview Park Forum
On Wednesday, April 21st, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Fairview Park Forum . Sunjay will be presenting a topic entitled Project Plan Ninja which discusses how to manage Rapid Business Requirements generation on a Rapid Application Development project.
Sunjay will be presenting proven techniques that can take your team from [...]

