Lessons Learned From Implementing a Scalable PAAS Service by Using Single Board Computers

Lessons Learned from Implementing a Scalable Paas Service by Using Single Board Computers

When a Platform-as-a-Service is demanded and the cost for purchase and operation of servers, workstations or personal computers is a challenge, single board computers may be an option to build an inexpensive system. This paper describes the lessons learned from deploying the private cloud PaaS solution AppScale on single-node systems and clusters of single board computers.

Collaborative games: Lessons learned from board games

Collaborative mechanisms are starting to become prominent in computer games, like massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs); however, by their nature, these games are difficult to investigate. Game play is often complex and the underlying mechanisms are frequently opaque. In contrast, board games are simple. Their game play is fairly constrained and their core mechanisms are transparent enough...

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Chapter XIX Implementing IT Service Management : Lessons Learned from a University IT Department

This chapter presents and analyzes a real life ITIL project, and it is based on a longitudinal case study. The purpose is to illustrate how the ITIL process reference model for some processes may be used almost as a blueprint, while ITIL for other processes may be profoundly adapted to suit the context and the needs of the implementer. Furthermore, the success factors and the impediments for su...

Implementing the Single Institutional Review Board Model: Lessons from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP)1,2 was established to provide answers for patients with conditions that had long eluded diagnosis. Based on the success of the UDP, the NIH elected to support the program’s expansion into a network of medical research centers in 2013, the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Here we outline the steps required for...