I have been writing a 10-part series on the Rackspace Cloud Blog. I’ll be keeping a running list of the posts here as they are published. Rule 1 – Cache is Your Friend Rule 2 – Don’t write to the database in real time Rule 3 – Use a “Stateless” design whenever possible Rule 4 [...]

If you want to know what memcached is all about, check out my recent post about memcached on The Rackspace Cloud Blog. In order to use memcached in the cloud, you may need to run it on a public network. This introduces a rash of security concerns. Originally memcached was only intended for use on [...]

Cloud Mobile lets you manage your files stored on Cloud Files from the palm of your hand using your iPhone. It’s exciting to see software companies like Proactive Apps, LLC using Rackspace’s public REST API’s to build useful tools like this one. Founder of Proactive Apps, Marc Jones, quotes: “We made the decision to support [...]