Pinterest is a Big Lesson on Scalability - Pinterest is one of those startups who to had to deal with an exponential growth of 10 billion page views. Going from 0 to 10 billion page views in less than 2 years needed to redesign their infrastructure several times before achieving full stability. Previously we wrote about the topic Scalability in Cloud Computing. Also, it is must to be mentioned … [Read more...]
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 and MySQL Easy Guide
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 and MySQL on Rackspace Cloud Server with Ubuntu Linux is written in easy language and as step by step guide for the newbies with all step explanation. Where we need this kind of setup ? this is for most of the CMS, Forum and blogging softwares. WordPress is typical example. But for WordPress we have our old typical guide and obvious how to install WordPress on … [Read more...]
Platform as a Service : Lack of an Ideal model
Platform as a Service or PaaS, lack an ideal and common model. Half offers no standards, the big providers are exploiting varied strategies for PaaS. We published two relevant articles on Platform on a Service - Is PaaS Model of Cloud Computing is the Future Mainstream and Overview of PaaS and Java EE. Platform as a Service : No standards, no best practices However, the Platform as … [Read more...]
NAND Flash Memory
NAND Flash Memory is a type of flash memory, which is made ??in the so-called NAND technique which refers to the serial arrangement of individual memory cells. These consist of special MOS-FETs which as in a NAND-gate are interconnected. There are four manufacturers of the corresponding NAND Flash Memory chips : Samsung, Toshiba, IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture of Intel and Hynix in … [Read more...]
Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Computer-aided Manufacturing (CAM) refers to the use of a machine software to create production workpieces on the basis of the computer produced Computer-aided Design (CAD) data. Previously we wrote about Cutting, Drilling, Casting and Molding Metals For DIY Projects. Except Injection method, all are fully mechanical and very primitive and thus lacks the process to use a computer is not possible … [Read more...]
Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide
Installing Drupal on OpenShift PaaS Video Guide shows the easy steps to install ready made Drupal on Free OpenShift PaaS. We have also shown the basics of CLI. Although this is a video guide, we are providing the minimally needed knowledge to carry on the usage of Drupal. Please keep in mind, I am not used with Drupal like WordPress, I mean I know the basics about Drupal but not a core developer … [Read more...]
Installing a Lightweight Wiki WikkaWiki on Free OpenShift PaaS
Installing a Lightweight Wiki WikkaWiki on Free OpenShift PaaS is just like installing any custom PHP-MySQL based Applications. Here is a detailed guide. WikkaWiki often shortened to Wikka, is a free software wiki which in PHP is programmed. To store the data it uses the MySQL database. The predecessor was the project WikkaWikis WakkaWiki . Meanwhile, developers released it provisionally in 2003 … [Read more...]
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Computer Aided Design (CAD) refers to the designing of a product by using computer. Professional CAD applications are technical design and construction.The third dimension (3D) feature is added in almost all Computer Aided Design (CAD) applications now. Computer Aided Design (CAD) also refers to the making of a virtual model in virtual three-dimensional space by means of a computer. In all aspects … [Read more...]
Artistic Photography and Social Networking
Artistic Photography is where photography is used as a mean of artistic expression or to achieve enlightenment, social commentary or other ideological themes. Many new DSLR owners are quite interested about Artistic Photography with digital photography, the major reason is the easy to achieve artistic effects with a digital file - Adobe Photoshop is the Digital Darkroom in case of DSLR … [Read more...]
Virtualization : Easy Explanation of the Technology
Virtualization is typically used to mean by processor virtualization. Besides the processor virtualization, there are other types like for disks or network. Virtualization is a hardware support that facilitates the operation of virtual machines on a real computer or accelerate some work. With virtualization, we can run multiple software systems on s single hardware. This can be different operating … [Read more...]
Snapshot in Computer Storage
Snapshot as a word originated from photography. In computing, snapshot is the copy of a system at a particular point in time which can be restored in some way. In the area of distributed systems and Cloud Computing, snapshot is the term is used for recording the global state at a given time. Basics of Snapshot in Cloud Computing and Computing Storage Snapshot is a algorithm for … [Read more...]