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Dear Cloud API, Your Fault Line is Showing
Most APIs are like hospital gowns. They seem to provide good coverage, until you turn around. I am talking about the dreadful state of fault reporting in remote APIs, from Twitter to Cloud interfaces...

REST in Practice for IT and Cloud Management: Wrap-Up (Part 3 of 3)
[Preface: Previously, I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and...

REST in Practice for IT and Cloud Management: Configuration Management (Part 2 of 3)
What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data centers and in Clouds)? Part 1 of the “REST in practice for IT and Cloud management” investigation looked...

REST in Practice for IT and Cloud Management: Cloud APIs (Part 1 of 3)
In this entry I compare four public cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management protocols. As someone who was involved...