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 [...]

Back in 1995 I was a proud co-founder of an Internet Service Provider in California. A call came into the tech support room. A woman was trying to use her computer for the first time to get on the internet to get some sewing patterns. She was perplexed because when she pressed on the computers [...]

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 [...]