Looking for how to spend your free time this holiday season? Check out Fiz, a cool mobile app for leisure and social travel – and a Xeround customer – designed to match your leisure preferences to great places near or far. The Fiz let’s go places mobile app lets you discover and explore places nearby, or in a far flung part of the world. Continue reading
Category Archives: Scalability
VIDEO: What Xeround Offers Cloud Providers
Running databases in the cloud doesn’t come easy – not for end users and not for cloud service providers. Just as developers struggle to manage their specific DB instances; similarly- cloud operators are expected to offer robust database solution – which guarantee high availability and scalability – and manage them across sometimes thousands of instances. In addition, cloud operators are also expected many times to offer a free tier as a way to ease developers’ path from development to production on their platform. The effective management of so many databases is expensive and takes a toll in terms of management and operational overhead. Continue reading
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Video Marketing in the Cloud? Don’t Forget About Your Data!
Today, many organizations are questioning the transition of their applications to the cloud so I thought it would be timely to write about our experience at Blue Saki Online and more specifically, how the cloud helped our team cut down on development and operational costs, enabled faster deployment and improved reliability for mission-critical applications like our online video marketing platform, AMANDA. Continue reading
Case Study: Guest Management Platform Venga Scales its Business with Xeround Cloud Database
Venga’s platform collects vast amounts of transactional data from restaurants’ point-of-sales systems – such as customers’ orders, server, check amount etc. This data is sent in near real-time to Venga’s cloud-based analytics application, and is later augmented with feedback sent by restaurants’ guests using Venga’s mobile app. Continue reading
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Case Study: Popular User Feedback App Uses Xeround for Automatic Scaling in the Cloud
WasThis.net is a popular widget allowing website owners to gather real-time feedback from their users. WasThis™ is a write-intensive application which required a zero-management DB solution that could support automatic scaling of throughput to accommodate sudden spikes in demand. Continue reading
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Make Your Joomla! Site Highly-Available & Scalable with Xeround Cloud Database
Joomla! site owners are migrating their databases to Xeround’s database service. Doing so ensures that their databases are available and can scale to accommodate their applications’ needs. And the best thing is that whether you are installing a new Joomla! site or migrating an existing deployment to work with Xeround – it’s as easy as 1-2-3! Continue reading
MySQL Sharding in the Cloud – Who’s Your (Stack’s) Daddy?
The week before last I had the privilege of attending Cloud Expo West. As usual, Santa Clara provided the perfect setting for the event with its luxurious convention center and lovely, crisp weather. It was very interesting listening to the … Continue reading
