Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released "Expert Delphi", but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at. I have recently bought printed (!) version of "Serverless Architectures on AWS" book by Peter Sbarski. "Serverless" is to me the biggest thing in years on the "server-side". No more thinking in terms of provisioning virtual machines in the cloud. The very ...

In this replay demo oriented session from CodeRage X, Pawel is going to show how to build single-source multi-device, natively compiled Delphi apps for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac that integrate with Amazon Web Services using Cloud API framework. Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers secure, scalable and inexpensive “cloud computing” platform that combined with cross-platform mobile and desktop rapid app Delphi development let you quickly build end-to-end solutions. During the session we are goin...

This week is all about upgrading your Delphi database applications. Not only it is the last chance to save big on upgrading to the latest version of Delphi with 10% discount and free mobile and bonus packs, but there are also two globally available free webinars on Wednesday and Thursday that will discuss the technical details of Migrating Your Database Applications to FireDAC and InterBase (youtube recording) RAD Server Scalable Cloud Deployment There are many dimensions to the process o...

It was great fun to do the Object Pascal developer webinar this week, but I have already started to prepare for the next on deploying RAD Server services implemented into Amazon Web Services cloud! RAD Server is your turn-key solution for implementing REST APIs services with Delphi and C++Builder. In this practical, demo-oriented session we are going to see how to create RAD Server scalable, fault-tolerant and highly available deployments in the cloud. I'm going to dem...

In a moment my "Amazon Web Services with Delphi" CodeRage X session is starting. I'm very excited and the sessions so far were very good. It is still 2 and half more days to go! The source code for the demos shown during my AWS Delphi session has been uploaded to Embarcadero Code Central for you to have a look and enjoy! You can download all demos from http://cc.embarcadero.com What is cloud computing? "Cloud Computing"refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the ...

Howdy! In this series, we will explore  on how easy it is to setup our Model Repository in the Amazon Web Services Cloud Environment. Now I will not be going through setting up an AWS EC2 instance etc. However, I will guide you through the steps you would need in order to successfully setup the Repository. [Step 1 --> Choosing the Correct Virtual Machine from the Gallery] My personal fav is the SQL Server 2008R2 with Windows 2008 R2. You are free to choose amongst other popular...