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James Murty

Biography

James Murty is a software developer with extensive experience creating web-based applications and architectures using Java. With a working background spanning a research institute, a small software house and various corporations he has a broad perspective on both the promise and the difficulties inherent in networked applications.

Most recently James has been excited to see the rise of web applications and services that provide compelling new tools and new ways of approaching old problems. While experimenting in this area he created JetS3t, an open source library and application suite that is the leading Java implementation available for Amazon's S3 data storage service.

Books

Programming Amazon Web Services Programming Amazon Web Services
by James Murty
March 2008
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Blog

James's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.jamesmurty.com/

AWS Management Console: Now with CloudFront

June 24 2009

Amazon’s AWS Management Console now supports the company’s CloudFront service, a CDN-like extension for the Simple Storage Service (S3). You can read about this new feature on the AWS Blog and watch an introductory video here. read more

OpenID Delegation: Why and How

June 16 2009

The great promise of the OpenID specification is that it can simplify identity management on the ‘net. At its best, OpenID provides three great features: Unified Identity A single account (identity) with which you can log in to many sites, removing the need to create and remember a separate username/login for every… read more

XMLBuilder Version 0.3: XPath, Parsing and Maven Goodies

June 11 2009

I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features. First, here’s a reminder of what this project does: XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code. It is intended to allow for quick and painless creation of XML documents where you might… read more

Real-world cloud computing

June 08 2009

An interesting post with some drawbacks of cloud computing and EC2, from those in the trenches: Real-world cloud computing. There are some real gems here, such as: [They all] used Amazon services, and most if not all of them seemed to use RightScale to manage them. Cost: cloud is more expensive than… read more

IPython with Python version 2.6 on OS X Leopard

June 06 2009

I recently installed the excellent IPython program, a beefed-up Python console that provides a raft of extra features over the default interpreter and makes it even more of a pleasure to work with this language. When you install IPython on Mac OS X Leopard using the standard method, it only installs… read more

Big data + Little pipe? Try S3 Ingestion

May 27 2009

A major barrier to moving your data to an online storage location like Amazon’s S3 can be the time it takes to push large numbers of bytes through your upstream Internet connection. While your connection may be fast enough to keep your data fresh and in-sync from day to day,… read more

New EC2 Services: Monitor, Scale and Load Balance Your Instances

May 20 2009

Amazon recently released three major new features for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service — New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch. These beta services are immediately available to anyone with an EC2 account and server instances located in the US (sorry EU folks,… read more

JetS3t Update: 0.7.1

May 10 2009

JetS3t (jet-set) version 0.7.1 is now available. This is the latest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite. Visit the JetS3t web site to download the new version, run the updated online applications, or read the latest documentation: http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html This version includes bug fixes and support for the… read more

AWS in Education

May 04 2009

Do you use Amazon Web Services for research purposes at a university, or as part of a university course? If so, you should look into Amazon’s new AWS in Education initiative which provides AWS service credits to members of the academic community. You can apply for credit programs designed for… read more

How to use JetS3t with Eucalyptus

April 30 2009

Eucalyptus is a relatively new but rapidly developing open-source system for running your own cloud computing clusters. There have been some exciting announcements recently around this project: it has been added to Ubuntu 9.04 as the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud technology preview, integrated into RightScale’s cloud management service, and has received… read more

Other AWS News: HIPAA Compliance, SimpleDB Batch Put

April 13 2009

Other AWS news that I haven’t yet mentioned… HIPAA Compliance Amazon has announced a white paper: Creating HIPAA-Compliant Medical Data Applications with Amazon Web Services. My JetS3t Java library is mentioned in the blog post among the tools that allow you to easily encrypt data that you store in S3. Check out… read more

SQS Update: Access permissions, visibility timeouts, and EU availability

April 13 2009

Amazon’s SQS messaging service has been updated with some interesting new features, as announced in the AWS blog post Powerful New Amazon SQS Features. Access Permissions The original release of SQS allowed users to set access permissions for their message queues so that third-parties could participate in their messaging system. This feature… read more

Article on Real-world Experiences with EC2

April 13 2009

Grig Gheorghiu of the Agile Testing blog has a very good post about his experiences deploying large-scale applications on Amazon’s EC2 service: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. Lots of great tips here. read more

Upgrading Eclipse: An exercise in frustration

April 01 2009

I am keen to try out Amazon’s new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse which adds EC2 instance management and direct deployment into the Eclipse IDE. However, I have just wasted my afternoon trying to upgrade to a new version of Eclipse that: Is version 3.3 or later, to be compatible with Amazon’s… read more

Amazon S3 turns 3, Users get a birthday discount

March 31 2009

To celebrate the three year birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon has announced reduced pricing for uploads for the next three months. From April to June 2009, uploads into S3 will cost 3¢ per Gigabyte instead of 10¢. The announcement is at the top of the Amazon S3 home… read more