The Force.com Multitenant Architecture

Here is the link that I promised for the white paper that I wrote for the folks at Salesforce.com. The abstract for the paper reads as follows:
“Force.com is the preeminent on-demand application development platform in use today, supporting some 47,000+ organizations. Individual enterprises and commercial software-as-a service (SaaS) vendors trust the platform to deliver robust, [...]

Introducing EquiVol

The generic application that I’m proposing for my cloud/PaaS/DbaaS application platform study is called EquiVol. The EquiVol application keeps track of the monthly open and closing price for a given publicly traded equity on a United States stock exchange. Besides being helpful with my stock trading endeavors, I believe that the EquiVol application will be [...]

Multi-Tenant Times

I know, I know. I don’t have a very good track record updating my blogs. But now it’s time for me to change all of that. My main problem is that I get involved in projects that are all-consuming, and neglect my desire to regularly share my thoughts on Software as a Service (SaaS), Database [...]

Database as a Service (DbaaS) Product Directory Published

I haven’t had time to post the past few days because I took a short trip to New York City. What an impressive place to visit! So much to see and do. Museums, buildings, shows, people watching, and don’t forget some of the best restaurants on the planet.
When you get a chance, take a look [...]

What Exactly Is Database as a Service?

To make sure that we are all starting from the same point, I thought it would be prudent to clearly define the term “Database as a Service” (DbaaS), at least as I see it. As of the time that I wrote this post, there were no related pages at Wikipedia about Database as a Service [...]

Hello Everyone

Alright, this is my second go at a blog. With my previous blog, I wasn’t very active in posting. I suppose that this was because I was too busy with other stuff. But I think it was also because I didn’t have enough focus on the topics I wanted to discuss. I originally wanted to [...]