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Is your "Free" Cloud Hosting Suitable for Production Apps?

| March 20, 2013 | News | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Many supposedly competitive PaaS’s and cloud hosting providers attract developers by making it seem easy to start running new apps. They start by offering a small “dose” of resources for free. The accompanying marketing campaigns sometimes seem to be saying: “Take it – it’s free forever”. But as apps start growing, they need more and…

The truth about PaaS vertical scaling and why you are being "oversold"

| January 24, 2013 | DevOps PaaS | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As you know, Jelastic PaaS has automatic vertical scaling, which allows you to pay less — to pay for your actual resource consumption, not instance size. True automatic vertical scaling is our one of key differentiators. It provides your application exactly the amount of RAM and CPU it needs, and reclaims those resources when your…

The second coming of Java

| December 11, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Robert X. Cringely at I, Cringely blog last year. Has this prediction come true? What do you think? Share your opinion with us! There’s a continuous revolution taking place in web development as platforms and tools evolved first to handle dynamic pages and now cloud services. But sometimes what…

Save Your Cloud Money!

| November 16, 2012 | DevOps PaaS | , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Unlike other PaaS and IaaS on the market, Jelastic does not require you to select the machine size and pay for it. Instead, Jelastic dynamically allocates resources instantaneously scaling application servers up and down, and making sure that they have the resources that they need. With Jelastic you pay for your actual resource consumption, not…

Which Java thread consumes my CPU?

| September 11, 2012 | Uncategorized | , , , , ,

What do you do when your Java application consumes 100% of the CPU? Turns out you can easily find the problematic thread(s) using built-in UNIX and JDK tools. No profilers or agents required. For the purpose of testing we’ll use this simple program: [code language=”java”] public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) {…

New Java PaaS launching soon

| July 4, 2011 | News | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The world needs a new Platform as a Service, and we are working hard on its beta launch – coming to you later this month. While we are putting the last touches of paint, perfecting documentation, and fixing the last few remaining bugs, we wanted to make a very quick pause and tell you what…

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