
or you can read it in english on INFOQ.
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Mary Meeker's recent Internet Trends presentation (June 2012) introduced a new buzzword into the tech world: reimagination. Meeker listed 50 different market categories that are in the process of being reimagined - in other words, disrupted or changed. This blog is dedicated to reimagination, with a special focus on the travel industry ...
Amazon still leading the pack of cloud providers and is now proposing an autoscaling service in Beta.
"Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. With Auto Scaling, you can ensure that the number of Amazon EC2 instances you’re using scales up seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance, and scales down automatically during demand lulls to minimize costs. Auto Scaling is particularly well suited for applications that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage. Auto Scaling is enabled by Amazon CloudWatch and available at no additional charge beyond Amazon CloudWatch fees."
The API can be downloaded here, but the main commands are the following ones:
Auto Scaling tracks when your conditions have been met and automatically takes the corresponding scaling action on your behalf.
More than that, Auto Scaling groups can span multiple Availability Zones. With Multi-AZ Auto Scaling groups, Amazon provides a way to achieve a balanced group of EC2 instances that are spread across multiple Availability Zones for high availability, and provide a single entity to be managed.
Open ERP is one of the most appreciated Open Source management software. Open ERP has released its new service offer - Odoo, the On demand ERP solution. This offer is a revolution in the ERP market for small and/or medium enterprises.
With Odoo, you can get a ready-to-use and complete enterprise management software in a few clicks. The subscription to Odoo is free, one need to pay at the end of the month, only if he is satisfied. With Odoo, one pay only what he really use @ 0,60€ per hour. Also the 60 hours of use per month is for free.
Get more informations under the website: http://www.odoo.com.
I would not be surprised to see some of the other players in the performance testing space to start offering similar services. As usual, load test pricing is not easy to forecast ...