We all love metrics. We all need numbers. And different stakeholders need different numbers. Numbers that will drive key decisions inside your organization and for your customers. Becoming a data driven organization requires having reliable data in the first place (…) You can read my post about generating reports and KPIs with throw-away databases on…

Cloud services enable you to increase or decrease the capacity of your deployment within minutes, but how can you scale a relational database automatically keeping predictable performance and costs under control? You can read my post about auto-scaling RDS on the Funambol Tech Blog, walking the tight rope of cloud development.