Questions tagged [cloud-computing]
services provided on-demand and easily scale up and down
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Most efficient way to maintain versioned business rules files for an Amazon ECS service?
I have an Amazon ECS service that relies on configuration files that contain business rules. The business rules are changed periodically by non-programmers. Total size of the rules files is ...
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In cloud (say AWS), what is the difference b/w golden image and hardened image of OS?
I have tried to search a lot but all I get is their definitions which more or less sound similar.
I would like to know if they are same?
If not, what are specific differences?
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What exactly do these cloud architecture terms mean? [closed]
What exactly does Hosted-Application, Cloud-Enabled, Cloud-Native and Cloud-Agnostic mean? Pros, Cons, and when to use?
Unable to find a similar question on Stack Exchange.
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Operating two independent and competing clusters?
My organization has a redundant setup across 2 data-centers. During normal operations both data-centers are up and handling workloads. For whatever reason, the infrastucture team has decided to ...
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At which points in the process/stack is Cloud data not encrypted - Cloud Security
Assume an application developed in a PaaS public cloud environment. The application stores and processes some kind of sensitive data.
Encryption-at-rest seems clearly described already, and the option ...
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Can companies use already-purchased on-prem tooling in the cloud if they want to move to the cloud? [closed]
Companies spend a lot of money on tooling for on-prem. But then they often want to move to the cloud for its obvious benefits, but feel limited in their ability to do so since they already invested so ...
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Is a cloud / lambda function a microservice?
If each cloud function or lambda function is hosted and scaled independently would it be considered a microservice?
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Does DaaS stands for Desktop as a Service or Data as a Service? [closed]
I've seen some topics around DaaS on the web.
Some of them state that DaaS stands for Desktop as a Service, which basically is the offering of virtual desktops.
In the other hand, some topics state ...
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Is cloud computing mainly just a marketing term?
I understand the concept of cloud computing, but I'm curious why the term has become so exhausted the past several years. Servers have been around for a long time, and I fail to see how this is any ...
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What is the recommended way to start a long-running containerized analysis in R from NodeJS?
I have a frontend through which users can submit analysis requests, which are inserted into a database. These analysis requests are received in a NodeJS server using Postgres notify/listen. Using ...
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Strategies in cloud migration [closed]
A few months ago I found a presentation with slides about the benefits of migrating to the cloud. I think that the presentation was maybe quite old but I think that it started with arguing that ...
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Sensitive data and cloud storage
I've been reading about machine learning models deployment and pipelines and so far most of the sources suggest that the data should be ingested from some sort of cloud based storage or source, be it ...
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FaaS least cost routing - comparable billing model?
I want to implement "FaaS least cost routing".
It does not make sense to calculate the costs before every request, but calculating the cheapest provider on a daily or hourly basis would make sense.
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How to keep state alive between deployments
In our history, when we did a new release (deployment) any user who was "logged in" was logged out and that was obviously not ideal. Then I switched platform from a custom stack to a cloud provider ...
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How to organize projects in AWS?
In our team, we are using AWS as our main cloud provider and currently, we have 3 projects hosted on their platform.
We are about to have 2 more projects in the next weeks, but first, we want to ...
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How to check for ID uniqueness on large dataset that can't fit into memory or on a single disk
Say I have 500MB of memory to work with, but 100 terabytes of IDs I want to generate. I want these IDs (GUIDs) to be randomly selected and applied to records, so they shouldn't appear in order when ...
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Can a Database Scale Up? [closed]
Microservices are the latest software development craze. All the kids are doing it. When I started hearing about the concept, the first advantage that came to mind was the single responsibility ...
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Notify Millions of subscribers at the same time(or with min. delay) in C++?
I'm working on a problem, in which i have some real time weather information of different cities through out the world. I'm exposing subscribe function to interested people/clients, with input:- ...
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Do I need to backup my data hosted on cloud services? [closed]
We are discussing at the company the migration of some on premises services to cloud alternatives. Is it market practice to backup servers on AWS, or repositories on GitLab.com, or files on Google ...
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Measuring the usability / ease of use of RESTful API in Mobile Cloud Computing?
APIs vary in their complexity, functionality and also usability. In Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) applications, which are mainly mobile applications that offloads processing / storage to the cloud, ...
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Serverless event-sourced architecture using AWS offerings
This is my first post on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange so let me know if something is wrong with it.
I'm looking into the serverless offerings of Amazon to try to figure out if that is the ...
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How do you integrate microservices that are distributed across domains and platforms?
Modern webapps have multiple microservices that may be on multiple domains (e.g. subdomains) and providers (e.g. both AWS and Google Cloud; or Google Container Engine Google App Engine within the ...
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De-duplication procedure [closed]
I knew that by using De-duplication procedure we can save storage costs.
1) I know what is de-duplication but I don't know how it works. Can someone clearly explain how de-duplication procedure works?...
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Is WSDL still used? [closed]
As today most of the development is towards the lightweight service and RESTful architecture, is WSDL still needed to describe these services? In today's world -- where cloud computing, mobile ...
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Is a cluster of heterogeneous machines a cloud? [closed]
Say I have two machines with their own hardware and different specifications. They are PCs actually. The discussion here is if there is a way to put them online together such as their processing power ...
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Using only cloud database and authentication service in the cloud as backend for a mobile app - sufficient?
I want to create an Android application with cloud-based functionality.
It would entail a (rather simple) loyalty program for consumers and retailers; so, just managing user accounts and some ...
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Load balancing outgoing connections in Azure Service Fabric
I'm currently developing an app using the Azure Service Fabric. My question comes in regards to balancing outgoing connections. One of my services is going to be making a large number of outgoing ...
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Cost of Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Consider a greenfield development situation where cloud tools are being considered vs. in-house solutions, in the vein of AWS SQS vs. self-hosted Kafka, ECS vs. Mesos-Marathon, Lambda/Azure Functions ...
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Message queues and triggered comms within a native app
I'm building a native app which currently has zero backend infrastructure.
With services like Firebase's Authentication, database and notifications means that all interactions are handled client-side ...
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Experience in working on cloud? [closed]
what does it mean when some technical guy asks did you work on cloud ?
I have worked primarily java based web applications. But sometime in discussion/interviews technical folks asks Have you worked ...
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What's the difference between block-level virtualization and file-level virtualization?
In cloud computing these two terms really confuses me, block-level virtualization and file-level virtualization .
As of my knowledge, in file-level virtualization compute systems are not allocated ...
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Is cloud storage such as Dropbox SaaS, PaaS, IaaS or something else entirely? [closed]
I am stuck at how to classify Dropbox and other cloud storage services within the ISP (IaaS,PaaS,SaaS) model. At their core, such services provide a cloud-backed file system which can be read and ...
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what is a Cloud-Native application?
I have heard this term a couple of times. What exactly does a Cloud-Native application refers to? What are the features of a Cloud-Native applications?
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Server architecture for short bursts of ~150 parallel CPU-heavy subqueries
The client sends a query (a few hundred characters) to the web service. This query can be split into 20 to 150 subqueries with a simple regex. Those subqueries can then be computed independently and ...
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Multitenant app or separate instance for every customer
Suppose you are selling a web app. There is no data or operation that involves more than 1 customer. Each customer is totally separate.
How would you prefer to make the deployments?
1) Deploy one ...
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web service that can run in both Cloud and Standalone configurations [closed]
My company develops technology for visitor management. We currently have 2 solutions, one that is in the field, running on on-site hardware. The other is cloud, running on the cloud and processing all ...
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When is cloud BlobStorage used?
Let's say we have an app deployed to Azure. App has external files not bundled with it, files which are required for app to operate. They are seperate but are essentially part of the software. ...
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Securing Amazon DynamoDB from Over-the-web attacks
I'm in the process of building out an architecture that will heavily leverage DynamoDb. My organization is considering the possibility of storing sensitive data (config info) in DynamoDb, as well as ...
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Serverless architecture: How to deploy changes in common business logic?
I've been hearing lately more and more about serverless architectures which are based on products such as AWS Lambdas, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, etc.
I understand the advantages of ...
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Should we be hosting code online?
We're looking for a good source control and project management solution at my workplace and I've suggested creating a GitHub organization and private repositories. I love GitHub for many reasons, but ...
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VMs are not created on the same physical server to balance load?
When load reaches a certain level in IaaS environemnt, new VM instances are created to reduce load (scalability).
My Questions that these VMs are not created on the same physical server, right?
I ...
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B2B SaaS application architecture
For my angularJS application I'm using asp.net web api backend.
For B2C I'm normally have one scalable backend application and each customer can have an account to use the services. There is one ...
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Azure CloudServices: Having more than just staging and production slots?
We're using Azure Cloud Services and would like to have a workflow where deployments flow as
Cloud Service #1: testing/QA => staging => production
Currently Azure Cloud Services only have ...
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Handle files on a remote location
Our intranet application is used to document and store office files. Both app and server are hosted remotely on the same server. Due to fact that our app server is changed every couple of years, we ...
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Virtualization vs Container
Most of cloud computing technologies are based on virtualization. The advertisement of cloud computing technologies often refers reliability and reduction of costs. But when compared with container ...
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How to scratch database that query faster for cloud computing
We are planning to develop a cloud based database driven web application which we would like world to use. Till date at the database side we have used fully normalized way to store the data and use ...
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Azure table storage and SQL
I am in the middle of an architectural decision that down the line will be important.
I have a system where I use ATS (Azure Table Storage) as the store for simple and very little data. It's not ...
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Do I need to use cloud services (EC2 / GAE) for my web app?
Noobie to deploying any kind of web app. I have a Java (Play Framework) and MySQL server app running locally. I know that I can deploy it to EC2 (have once as a test), and that I can download some ...
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Deciding between applications and services in CloudFoundry PaaS
I need some clarification on an aspect of CloudFoundry architecture guidelines. CF has two major concepts - applications and services. CF-Applications can consume CF-Services using the CloudFoundry ...
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Is there any harm in using amazon AWS as a development environment? [closed]
What modifications do I need to make to my workflow, and which skills do I need to learn in order to develop with Ruby On Rails on a Linux cloud server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
In particular, I ...
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