When I talk about architecting in the cloud, I am referring to building composite applications or services from scratch with the cloud as the target deployment platform. So as you read this post think about an enterprise application or collection of services build for the cloud. In previous posts I have referenced a hybrid cloud model like the one below:
Archive for June, 2009
Building Application With Cloud As The Target Platform
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Cyber Warfare Caused By Angry Gamers
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Dark Reading and China.org is reporting that two underground gaming services got so angry with each other that DDOS retaliation caused a temporary internet service outage in at least 3 provinces in China. Gamers are sometimes just too serious about their games.
This shows that cyber warfare is not just for nation states, two underground or unauthorized gaming services in China used a DDOS attack against the national DNS system (DNSPod) as a way to disrupt game play and attract more players to the competing services. Rather than actually going out to get more members, the DNS DDOS attack ended up causing a chain reaction failure of the national DNS infrastructure. (more…)