George Reese recently wrote a blog post about API design, William Vambenepe commented here. This is an interesting topic, I have a post on this subject too - it’s titled Developing API Server - Practical Rules of Thumb. In this post I would like to expand on the first point...

This post is about stuff I work on at my current job. I do not speak for my employer on this blog though, therefore please consider thoughts and opinions below as strictly my own, not necessarily endorsed or approved by CohesiveFT. It has been about 6 months since I last...

As most of you probably know, I work at CohesiveFT where I focus on VPN-Cubed product. In short, it’s a solution to build overlay networks in third-party clouds. Overlay networks in this case are based on redundant encrypted point-to-point connections from your regular servers to your VPN-Cubed servers called “managers”...

Update: CohesiveFT now also offers IPsec connectivity to VPN-Cubed running inside Amazon EC2. Read more. Today CohesiveFT team officially launches VPN-Cubed for Amazon EC2, a product that has been in beta for several weeks now. Check out the announcement on Elastic Server blog, which talks about both Pay and Free...

A technical post on VPN-Cubed that I contributed several thoughts to, is now up on CohesiveFT Elastic Server blog.

Someone once asked me to explain cloud computing. I jokingly replied that it’s like running your servers somewhere where there is no shortage of CPU power, storage capacity or bandwidth, and you get charged only for what you actually use. And if you needed more, you just ask (via API)...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-intro_1.html and http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/19/21FE-startups-winners_2.html

Starting today, Elastic Server On Demand allows you to select Phusion Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) as a web container for your Rails 2 application. This allows you to deploy a Rails app on Apache, the world’s most popular web server. Check it out at http://es.cohesiveft.com/site/rails2.

Yesterday was 1 year since I started at CohesiveFT. New things this year (in no particular order): Mac. I got a Macbook Pro as my work laptop. Feels great every time I sit down to work, even though I am not a very demanding desktop user - browser, email, IM,...

Elastic Server On Demand is now open to all with no registration required. You can browse around the site, see what it's all about and even build a limited number of Elastic Servers. While you are there, check out Community Servers space where people share their stacks - including this...

Please feel free to take Elastic Server On Demand (ESOD) Self-Guided Tour and check out exciting capabilities that our product has to offer, including intuitive visual interface to assemble your custom application stacks and tools to transform them into a Virtual Machine image. Note that server management web GUI and...

Update: Commercial counterpart of VcubeV is called VPN-Cubed, it's being developed by my employer CohesiveFT. VPN-Cubed is a vastly superior product, which eliminates various limitations of VcubeV and introduces new functionality. Check it out at http://cohesiveft.com/vpncubed. This week on Elastic Server blog we announced the official name of the technology...