Articles by Jeffrey Cogswell
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A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers
[caption id="attachment_6081" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Buried somewhere in these 500 pages is the solution to your current issue.[/caption] This is the story of the comparison that just w… -
RightScale, Scalr, enStratus: Comparing the APIs
Back in May, I took a look at three cloud management platforms: RightScale, Scalr, and enStratus. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that people from two of those companies—RightScale and Scalr—too… -
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Which is Best For You?
[caption id="attachment_3630" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Whether programming with Microsoft's platform (seen here) for Amazon's, various issues lurk, including the possibility of vendor loc… -
An Overview of Java Cloud Options
Business managers might not need to keep up on the nuts and bolts of technologies, but they should stay aware of the different technologies available to their IT teams. One decision to be made du… -
SQL vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better?
[caption id="attachment_2564" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Not too long ago, this was the only data-storage device most companies needed. Those days are over.[/caption] For the past 40-some y… -
Schemas in MongoDB with Node.js
Note: This article is for people who are somewhat new to MongoDB and Node.js, but have a decent knowledge of JavaScript. Although document storage allows for schema-free databases, in practice th… -
RightScale, Scalr, enStratus: Do They Offer Good Cloud Management?
[caption id="attachment_814" align="aligncenter" width="618" caption="Choosing the right cloud-management system can spare an IT pro's blood pressure."] [/caption] When considering a third-party…