Running a production application in the cloud can be great because it’s possible to add and remove servers from a cluster dynamically using a provisioning API. These automatic additions and removals can be triggered by system utilization levels that you measure, such as concurrent network connections, memory utilization, or CPU utilization. When you need more [...]

I was doing some work integrating with a payment gateway in a PHP application, and decided it would be a good idea to validate credit card numbers using a Luhn Algorithm formula prior to forwarding them to the payment gateway for processing. I looked for existing PHP ones, and found a few. The more I [...]

Definition of Cloud Platform: A system where software applications may be run in an environment composed of utility cloud services in a logically abstract environment. Definition of PaaS: Platform as a Service. A Cloud Platform offered by a service provider as a hosted service which facilitates the deployment of software applications without the cost and [...]