Archive for June 2010

Mobile Apps and Cloud Computing: The Perfect Complement

June 16, 2010 3:02 AM

Your organization just completed the development of a mobile application which has been submitted and approved by the Apple app store and Android app store. You wait for your first user to login to the application and you celebrate that someone has installed your app and is using it. You monitor the backend infrastructure poised to ramp up additional hardware as necessary to support more users. The number of users double a few times and you reach the point where you have to add an additional server to your backend infrastructure to handle the load. No problem, you prepared for this growth and have a brand new Dell server stacked with processors and memory just sitting there waiting to be put into production. Another few days pass by and the number of users has doubled again. No problem, you prepared for this growth once again and have two more Dell servers stacked with processors and memory just waiting to be put in production. Then...someone with quite a Twitter following tweets about how awesome your mobile application is. This tweet is then re-tweeted all over cyberspace, into just about every social networking site known to man including LinkedIn, Facebook, My Space, etc. Your user base has increased by a factor of 1,000 almost overnight. This time, it is a problem. Unfortunately, you are out of available servers and your procurement department can't get 100 more servers ordered in less than 2 weeks and you need them ASAP. The number of users keeps increasing and before you know it, people are tweeting about how slow and unresponsive your mobile application is. Your call center and email inboxes are overwhelmed with users wanting their money back.

posted by Matt Van Bergen

Using HornetQ in the CityTech Summit World 2010 App

June 15, 2010 10:25 PM

So some of the developers here at CITYTECH have been busy putting together an application that will run at this year’s Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld. I’m sure you’ll hear more about it across the CT blogs (you may have already), but basically it will be a cross platform mobile app that will serve up Red Hat/JBoss trivia questions to conference participants who have downloaded the app and registered. Users will then accumulate points by answering questions, and there will be a weighted raffle for great prizes at the end. In addition to all of the mobile goodness, the application will feature some cool JBoss projects on the back end including Infinispan, ModeShape and RESTEasy. Oh, the back end will all run on JBossAS installed on AWS.

posted by Tom Kelly

Sweepstakes with JBoss Infinispan, ModeShape, and others.

June 9, 2010 3:08 AM

Don’t wait for Ed McMahon to come knocking on your door for this Sweepstakes. Instead, make sure you grab the CITYTECH mobile app “Summit World 2010″ which will be released to the Apple AppStore and Google MarketPlace sometime before JBoss World on June 22, 2010 (keeping fingers crossed on AppStore acceptance). Once you have the mobile app and the conference starts, you can start answering trivia questions served up by our “Trivia Server” running in the Amazon Cloud using JBoss ModeShape and Infinispan. Questions are mostly technical in nature and each correct answer is worth specific points. The more points you earn, the better your chances of winning great prizes in the sweepstakes drawing at the end of the conference. I know the marketing folks are planning to top the Kindle prizes from last year, so make sure to stop by the CITYTECH booth to see what they have in mind.

posted by Jeff Brown

CITYTECH Reseller Portal – Leveraging GateIn and Seam

June 6, 2010 7:41 PM

Overview GateIn Portal, a JBoss Community project, is a merge of the JBoss Portal and eXo Portal projects and forms the primary component of the new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5 released just 10 days ago. The CITYTECH Reseller Portal (CRP), which runs in and leverages GateIn provided features, provides CITYTECH a web-based channel for selling Red Hat software (RHEL and JBoss). The current version (1.0) allows CITYTECH Sales Representatives to quickly create software quotes on-demand, generate PDF quote documents, and send these to customers.

posted by Bill Burlein

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