Category: Scalable Systems
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Cloudy this morning … and we’re scaling – Part 5
Cloud computing has so much potential that the possibilities seem to be endless. Without knowing much about it the cloud looks like a magic place for many people. To give you a more detailed explanation we sum up the design process of our cloud application step by step in the following blog post. Without giving…
SocialCloud – Services are here to serve – Part 4
‘To Start Press Any Key.’ Where’s the ANY key? – Homer Simpson – There are so many possibilities to start the next big thing and the great thing in the IT- world is, that it is happening with every pressing of ‘any key’ on your Keyboard. So, press these keys and realize great and new…
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – You got cloudified – Part 3
At the beginning of our project we had little experience in “that cloud thing everyone is talking about”. Just like Gary Klinman from Hewlett Packard pointed out, we already knew that it is possible to “back things up to the cloud”, but in our imagination “the cloud” seemed more like a fancy slogan than a…
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Is it nice to organize?! – Part 2
In every job interview, sooner or later there will be the important question: Can you tell us about your teamwork skills? The importance of teamwork is continuously increasing in the IT world and coding geeks sitting in a dark basement are outdated.
SocialCloud – Ideas, Ideas and Ideas?! – Part 1
“Well, I am currently working on a system that will stop my cats from entering through the cat flap if they are carrying a dead mouse. – Do you guys have any private projects you would like to work on within this seminar?” – Thomas Pohl, lecturer and cat owner As a student being…
The new CI world, Wrapping it up with Git
Nowadays many agile teams work with Git and Feature Branches. A developer works with on a feature and at the end he merges the new feature’s code into the project. However, this concept goes against the principles of CI. Let’s take a closer look at this practice and find out if the concepts of version…
The Elixir Programming Language
An introduction to the language, its main concepts and its potential. The number of security incidents has been on the rise for years, and the growth of the Internet of Things is unlikely to improve the situation. Successful attacks on all kinds of interconnected smart devices, from car locks over home security systems to highly…
A sneak peak into Continuous Integration
What does the development of a software product involves? Is there more than programmers coding at their PCs and managers telling them what they want? What is the real meaning of ‘release’? In the old age of software development, a development team would have to deal with incredible amounts of organization in order to establish…
More is always better: building a cluster with Pies
So you have written the uber-pro-web-application with a bazillion of active users. But your requests start to get out of hand and the Raspberry Pi under your desk can’t handle all the pressure on its own. Finally, the time for rapid expansion has come! If you have already containerized your application, the step towards clustering your…
Intel NUC and the quest for the holy boot target
Do you already have found time to recover from fighting the demons which made it hard to get a Docker cluster up and running on Raspberry Pis? Hopefully – because the next crusade lies ahead of us! So let’s dive into the next adventure, watching our heroes – three greenhorn students – on their search for their Intel NUC’s missing…
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