Cloud Foundry

One of the neat things about Cloud Foundry is that, because the code is open source, it’s easy to see how the administration tools (such as the command line-based vmc) work. The Cloud Controller component has a REST API, which … Continue reading →

Unlike most Platform as a Service offerings today, the open and extensible nature of Cloud Foundry means developers will not be locked into a single cloud or remain beholden to the feature set delivered based on a vendor’s timeline. This … Continue reading →

Redis is a popular open source, advanced key-value store project sponsored by VMware. It has been a Cloud Foundry core service from day one and is widely adopted by developers, who love its performance and flexibility. In the following guest … Continue reading →

Cloud Foundry now supports Play 2.0 as a first-class framework. Play is a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly framework for Java and Scala. Developers can leverage this event-driven non-blocking IO architecture to build highly scalable applications. Play 1.0 applications were previously deployable to Cloud Foundry as … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce support for npm (Node Package Manager) which manages Node.js application module dependencies on CloudFoundry.com. The popularity of Node.js can be partially attributed to its strong ecosystem that has created modules for practically any programming task–from database access to payment processing. … Continue reading →

This blog is the second in the series of blog posts describing how to build an Activity Streams App in Node.js with MongoDB and Redis. As you saw on the previous post, the node-express-boilerplate app was a great start at … Continue reading →

Cloud Foundry provides developers with several choices of frameworks, application infrastructure services and deployment clouds. This approach to providing a platform as a service enables the fast creation of useful cloud applications that take advantage of polyglot programming and multiple data services. … Continue reading →

In this final post of the four-part series on deploying standalone apps to Cloud Foundry, we will explore how to build and deploy JVM-based web applications that aren’t packaged as traditional WAR files. This includes applications that are built on … Continue reading →

In this final post of the four-part series on deploying standalone apps to Cloud Foundry, we will explore how to build and deploy JVM-based web applications that aren’t packaged as traditional WAR files. This includes applications that are built on … Continue reading →

In the two previous posts in this series, we discussed using Cloud Foundry’s new support for standalone apps to deploy worker processes. We looked at an example using Resque for Ruby apps. In this third installment, we explore using Spring to create … Continue reading →