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High Availability Series: Series Outline View Comments

With all of the talk about reliability, or lack thereof, of SaaS and Cloud based applications, I thought I would write a series on designing applications to be Resilient and Highly Available.  The series sort of started with this post “It’s Inadequate Design That Lets Systems Fail, Not Whether They Are SaaS or Deployed in …

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Posted on: 08-16-2009 in Cloud Computing, High Availability (HA), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service, Software Design

It’s Inadequate Design That Lets Systems Fail, Not Whether They Are SaaS or Deployed in The Cloud View Comments

There have been many high profile outages lately which have caught peoples attention.  These failures are being used as an argument for why critical systems should remain internal and not be deployed as SaaS or in the Cloud.  Some of these outages included Google App Engine’s performance issues in early July , Rackspace’s loss of …

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Posted on: 08-15-2009 in Cloud Computing, High Availability (HA), Software as a Service, Software Design

The Challenges of Allowing Offline Usage in a SaaS Based System View Comments

So I was reading an article this evening over at CloudAve about the latest Google Reader and how it still can’t be used offline with full features. In particular the article focuses on its inability to allow you to read articles offline  and then flag those articles as already read, such that when you get …

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Posted on: 08-14-2009 in Software as a Service, Software Design, The Business of SaaS
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