The BMW MINI SP Daten v58 files
Because we are in the IT field, we manage areas other then cloud and virtualization, servers, vps hosting, webhosting, datacenter operations, OSes or middleware. We love cars, and we like to tweak and personalize features that the manufacturer didn’t want to program – short word: coding, or they would have asked for extra cash just […]
Continue Reading...Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street View Cars To Map Air Pollution
If a city knows what intersections are full of smog, it could add trees or change stop light schedules to improve the air its citizens breathe. Google Earth’s Outreach program that equips non-profits and public-benefit organizations with data wants to give the world these insights. So today, Google revealed that it’s been working with SF […]
Continue Reading...Why are smartwatches still a niche purchase?
With so many brands on deck, why aren’t we seeing more smartwatches? The advent of connected watches suffers from no shortage of hype, from Apple’s smartwatch being made available for rent, to Pebble Time’s fundraising campaign breaking Kickstarter records, to Casio’s critically acclaimed “watch first” approach. And considering the volume of explainer roundups advising which […]
Continue Reading...Openstack HEAT tutorials: 3. Autoscaling with Ceilometer
The real power of Heat is creating autoscaling resources which automatically scale up/down resources based on Ceilometer metrics. In the example below, Heat will create an autoscaling group with a minimum of 1 instances and a maximum of 5 instances (at launch time it will create only one instance) and will adjust the number of […]
Continue Reading...Openstack HEAT tutorials: 2. Creating multiple resources of the same type using autoscaling group
This example will show you how to create multiple resources of the same type using autoscaling groups. The real power of autoscaling groups is to use them together with scale-up/down policies in order for Openstack to automatically create new instances (scale-up) or delete instances (scale-down) based on a chosen metric. For example, when the average […]
Continue Reading...Openstack HEAT tutorials: 1. Deploying an instance with haproxy installed and configured for basic HTTP load balancing
This is a an example of HEAT template for deploying an instance with haproxy installed and configured for basic HTTP load balancing. Below you my see the script which is composed of three sections: 1. Template format section This template is written AWS CloudFormation (CFN) format. This is typically expressed in JSON format. The template […]
Continue Reading...Openstack Summit, Vancouver – Day 2 (May 2015)
Mark Collier, COO at Openstack starts the day going a little deeper into Openstack’s architecture than on Day 1 explaining to the audience that the platform not only supports the major hypervisors, but also bare-metal implementations. This fact leading nicely onto the first of the customer evidence sessions with Collier introducing James Penick, Cloud Architect […]
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