Cloud Computing: PaaS

An article from IBM developerWorks entitled "Cloud services for your virtual infrastructure, Part 2: Platform as a Service (PaaS) and AppScale"

A list of PaaS:
Google App
Windows Auzure
AppScale: Open Source implementation of Google App (

Appscale at CLOUDCOMP '09

View more presentations from University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Morph Lab
Force.com
Bungee Connect

Model Driven Architecture

OMG MDA

Implementations:
AndroMDA

Interview with Ted Leonsis, former AOL exec and longtime entrepreneur

New book:
“The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work,” Ted Leonsis wrote the book former AOL PR head John Buckley.

UML

A UML Quick Reference

Website Performance

Ensuring Web Site Performance

Tools suggested from this article:
HttpWatch
Fiddler
dynaTrace [blogOnDynatrace]

On Firefox, YSlow and PageSpeed
On Chrome, DevTools

JSF ICEFaces

ICEfaces.org Documentation

The ICEFaces Tutorial


ICEFaces Tutorial Blog

ICEfaces Facelets Tutorial

On Spring framework

Spring Reference Documentation

Cloud Vendor: Egnyte

Egnyte

Networking

Here are a couple of sites to learn about networking : )

Internetworking Basics by Cisco

Digital Subscriber Line (using telephone lines)
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dsl.htm

Learn about Routers and Switches operate
Most importantly, the differences

There is also the more advanced Ethernet and MetroEthernet

Domain vs Workgroup, and How-to [1, 2, 3, 4 ]

IP Addressing and Subnetting [1, 2]

On securing the network, there is the firewall (or see firewallII and firewall history) and DMZ (more on DMZ [1, 2, 3, 4])

Learning about Web Servers and Application Servers
and their differences