Scalr

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http://scalr.net

Project description

<p>With Scalr, your website and web application can grow to millions of users with little work. Scalr will provision new servers on-the-fly to handle spikes in demand, and decommission them when no longer needed to lower cost. It will scale your database, application servers, and load balancers so you never have to. The end result? With Scalr, you'll never need an $8000/month IT person - just a $99/month subscription to scalr.net</p> <p>Take your time developing your application. When you're ready to launch, Scalr will provision all the resources from the Cloud for a smooth product launch, even if a million users sign up the first day.</p> <p>The hardest part in scaling a website is scaling the database. As your website or application grows, Scalr will scale it automatically by provisioning database slaves, masters, and configuring data replication.</p> <p>Scalr provides you with a high uptime, fault-tolerant website: Scalr monitors all your servers for crashes, and replaces any that fail. To ensure you never lose any data, Scalr backups your data at regular intervals and uses Amazon EBS for database storage. And to make sure you never pay more than you should, Scalr lowers costs by decommissioning servers when load subsides.</p>

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HTML5 for Desktop Application Development

by Yong Zhi on February 8, 2012

Most developers know that it makes a lot of sense to develop software that you can "write once and run anywhere." It's more economical, easier to implement cross-platform, and generally leads to fewer headaches. Back when the most important and/or dominant platform was the Desktop, QT and Java made it easy to develop software that could be run anywhere. But enter the Smartphone Era stage-left, and you've got a problem - those solutions are not available on iPhones, iPads, etc.

This has led to a lot of buzz around HTML5-based development for mobile apps (PhoneGap, for example is a popular platform for building applications with HTML5). Often these platforms do not support native UI components, but people seem to care less about standard UI nowadays; authoring UI with HTML5 gives people more freedom on look and feel. Traditionally javascript is very restricted for security reason (no local file/socket access etc), but the restriction can be lifted via browser extension.

So, great - we can use HTML5 to write platform-independent software for smart phones. But, we can also use similar technology to write desktop applications with HTML5 - even better!

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HTML5 for Desktop Application Development

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