Roshan Sequeira

Developer / Consultant

Roshan Sequeira

Roshan is immersed in Cloud Computing. He is currently employed at Appistry where he advises organizations stepping into the Cloud Computing arena. He is also the founder of Plexibus LLC, a St. Louis based consultancy firm.



Presentations

Enterprise Cloud in a Box - Virtualization

Doing more with less is in, especially in this economy. Cloud Computing is based on this premise. But can we, developers, use Cloud Computing in our everyday development and test cycles?

In this session of minimal slides and primarily demos, we will look at how we can take advantage of virtualization software, namely VirtualBox, to create our own development and test clouds. By the end of this session, you will see how easy it is create your own enterprise "Cloud in a Box".

Enterprise Cloud in a Box - Platform

So you have taken the first steps in Cloud Computing by embracing Virtualization. But with Virtualization come a host of issues which we, developers, using the Cloud need to be aware of.

In this session of minimal slides and primarily demos, we will delve into those issues and see how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings aim to alleviate some of the pain. We will explore one of the free PaaS cloud tools, Appistry's CloudIQ Community Edition, and see how we can use it with virtualization software like VirtualBox, in our development and test cycles. By the end of this session, you will have added another aspect to your enterprise "Cloud in a Box". Feel free to explore CloudIQ with me during the session.

Enterprise Cloud in a Box - Scalability

You just deployed your highly-modularized Spring web application to your "Cloud in a Box" made up of multiple bare-metal or virtualized nodes. You front-end your web app with a HTTP load-balancer to spread out the requests. But wait a second, the view layer is just a proxy to the service layer which forms the meat of your application. So does adding a HTTP load-balancer suffice? Grid computing software could help here to scale out the service layer but it's not without limitations.

In this session, we will look at these limitations and explore how some freely downloadable PaaS cloud tools such as Appistry CloudIQ Community Edition, makes scaling out the service components easy. We will walk through a demo of deploying a Spring web application to our enterprise "Cloud in a Box", load test it and watch it scale.