Andrew Glover

.NET eye for the Java guy


over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
I recently had the pleasure of catching up with my old friend, Ted Neward. As anyone who has ever had the occasion of inquiring into Ted’s opinions knows...

The cloud according to CloudBees


over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
The notion of the cloud has certainly evolved from some abstract definition of shared resources into a model whereby infrastructures have differentiated...

Easy ORM-ness for GAE, part 2


over 1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
As I’ve blogged and written about on various occasions, Google App Engine doesn’t just scale apps: it can also help you assemble them rapidly, using...

Big data processing with Hadoop


~1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
Data storage has become cheap. Consequently, we’re storing tons of it: in less than 10 years since launching its image search feature, Google has indexed...

Learn Ruby the easy way


~1 year ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
A few years back while on a conference panel discussion, a panel member (Stu Halloway, if my memory serves me) in response to a question regarding how to...