Amazon’s Beanstalk Eases Climb to the Cloud
Amazon wants to make your cloud computing simple. The company announced Elastic Beanstalk on Wednesday. The application makes it easier to use Amazon’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services. The new application lets developers quickly deploy and manage Web services such as storage, computing clusters, application health monitoring, load balancing and auto-scaling.
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Deciphering the jibber jabber: getting started with your own self-hosted XMPP server
Instant messaging is typically regarded as a social tool, but it also plays an increasingly important role in the workplace as a medium for professional communication. One of the most important technologies that has helped to advance instant messaging as a business tool is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an XML-based open standard that fosters interoperability between real …
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Amazon Web Services Simplifies App Deployment
A service called Elastic Beanstalk aims to serve as an on-ramp to the cloud.
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