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Easy Database Manipulation with Groovy and Gradle

February 15, 2016 by Steve Perkins

Taking a renewed look at Groovy, the under-hyped yet ubiquitous JVM based language, and how it makes database scripting easy.

Categories Programming Tags Continuous Integration, Gradle, Groovy, Java, JetBrains, Ruby, Scala Leave a comment

WAR files vs. Java apps with embedded servers

November 21, 2014March 11, 2013 by Steve Perkins
Embedded Java Server

When should you deploy a Java app to the server as a traditional WAR file, and when should you use an embedded server in the application itself? […]

Categories Infrastructure, Programming Tags Ant, App Servers, AppFog, Groovy, Heroku, hybris, Java, Maven, Python, Ruby, Scala 4 Comments

Hosting a WordPress site on AppFog, without persistent file storage

March 9, 2014February 18, 2013 by Steve Perkins
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How to host (and upgrade) a WordPress application on AppFog, despite the cloud platform’s lack of a persistent filesystem. […]

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, AppFog, Ruby, web hosting, WordPress 4 Comments

Moving from shared hosting to a PaaS

January 29, 2014February 16, 2013 by Steve Perkins

“Cloud” providers are maturing into a serious option for enterprise Java. On the smaller scale, they may soon make “cPanel”-based shared web hosts obsolete.

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, Google, Java, Python, Ruby, web hosting, WordPress 24 Comments

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