Posts Tagged Under: cloud

REST Best Practices: Choosing HTTP Methods

We do a lot of REST in the Pineapple team. We love REST. Why? There are many reasons:

  • It is standard, so that creating services always follows a pattern
  • Developing clients is super easy, in all programming languages
  • Programmers can easily understand it
  • Testing (of all types) can be easily automated
  • Because it relies on HTTP, it’s highly scalable infrastructure wise
  • We can choose the preferred data format for sending and receiving information – usually JSON 🙂

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Is Innovation A Process?

When I first ask someone this question, I usually get a brutal answer: not a chance!!! This is what I’ve learned the hard way: true innovation is a process. Accidental innovation is not a process, but a fortunate mistake. 😉 In order to innovate, you have to follow a recipe because innovation must be consistent.

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VoipNow 3 – Amazon S3 Storage

Another interesting feature in VoipNow 3 is related to storage.

The industry has known many changes over the past years, but storage has remained a hot topic to the majority of Service Providers who consider scaling (read growing) their businesses.

Never Enough

Irrespective of how much storage space was available, sooner or later one would find herself / himself going out of space. This can apply to a personal computer, but also to the service provider’s environment when dealing with customer information.

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Cool Summer 2012 Internship Problem Set 7

We’re closing this race with a set of problems that rely heavily on context.

The Cool Summer Internship Race has been a driver of great attitude, since most of what we published left room for creativity, in every sense.  What is more important though is that it turned into a driver of entailing actions.

What are we going to do next:  we want to offer those who would like to become interns at 4PSA the chance to know us in a competition.

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Cool Summer 2012 Internship Problem Set 5

The Cool Summer Internship Race is getting closer and closer to the finish line.  A big thumbs-up for all those who have already sent their solutions to previously posted problems and a piece of advice to those willing to do so: hurry up, we only have 2 sets of problems left! But we still have positions to fill. 🙂

This week is going to be more social. 🙂

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Cool Summer 2012 Internship Problem Set 4

We are thrilled to see that we rose some enthusiasm with the problem sets published so far. This fourth problem set is dedicated to strategy. We would like to see more of the “how”, and to this purpose, we are publishing approach-based challenges.

Do not forget about the rules. The deadline to submit your solutions is Monday, April 23rd, 10 am GMT. Results must be submitted here. You can solve the problem in a small team!

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