Tag Archives: cloud

Robustness in the Midst of Chaos

I’ve been catching up on technology news this week, after a few months of completely ignoring it. One of my favorites so far has been Netflix’s brief post on 5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS. Within, they discuss the importance of testing your systems ability to survive failure in a infrastructure that is inherently chaotic …

April 29, 2011 – 11:50 am | By chadwick | Posted in Software Development, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Connecting to Apple Push Notification Services using Python & Twisted

One of the exciting features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 operating system is the ability for a device to receive a notification message from your own application that is relayed by Apple’s network cloud. This feature allows the iPhone to channel all out-of-band communication into a narrow channel that is low impact on the device …

May 11, 2009 – 9:34 am | By chadwick | Posted in Software Development, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)