Featured Blog Posts (10)

The Stax service now includes upgrades that improve production application security and reliability by allowing you to run dedicated servers on your own EC2 account. Dedicated servers are used only by your applications, so they are isolated from applications deployed by other Stax users and can take full advantage of the underlying computing resources.

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We've seen a recent surge in interest from the Scala community, so we've created some new guides for getting started quickly with Scala and Lift on Stax.

If you've never heard of Scala, it's a "tastefully typed" programming language for the Java runtime that combines powerful features from both the object-oriented and functiona… Continue

The Stax team has been working on a new set of tools for Java developers who use Apache Maven to manage their projects. We'd like to get an early version of this toolset into the hands of some Maven developers for some initial feedback and testing. If you are interested in using Maven to build and deploy your Stax applications, please check out this Stax Maven tutorial wiki page, and let us know how it goes. Please commen… Continue

The Stax Java and MySQL services underwent maintenance today (Sunday, Oct 25) between 5:30PT-9:15PT. All applications and databases were rolled to upgraded servers. These upgraded servers provide some new underlying services that will be the basis of some new features we will be rolling out over the next month. Please let us know if you find any issues or have any questions. Maintenance Notes: - One of the global application DB clusters was inaccessible between 8:55-9:05 PT. Applications that a… Continue

The Stax service is undergoing maintenance today (Sunday, Oct 25) between 4:30PT-8:30PT. During the time the Stax admin will be unavailable and all running application will be rolled to new servers. Continue

We pushed an update this evening that greatly simplifies the deployment of Grails applications to the Stax Cloud. The process of creating and deploying a Grails application now consists of the following basic steps: Create the app: # grails create-app myapp Write your code and test locally: # grails run-app Generate the application WAR file: # grails war Deploy the war to the Stax Cloud: # stax… Continue

The Stax SDK has been updated to 0.3 and is now available for all Stax developers to use. This update of the SDK includes:

• a new set of management commands that make it easier to create and delete Java application and MySQL database resources from the command line
• a new Web-based Query API that allows Stax resources to be managed programmatically and to integrate Stax into release engineering processes
• a new applicatio

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The Stax Cloud was recently upgraded to collect and report a rich set of metrics about the performance of your deployed Java applications. The new charts on your application's Operations page are designed to give you insight into the health of your application and to help you judge the impact of the changes you make to your application over time. By correlating past changes in application performance with the overlaid application timeline, y… Continue

The Stax application console now supports configuring multiple custom domains from the application configuration tab. This is useful for applications that want to configure aliased domains for accessing their applications or for applications that want to change the behavior of the application based on the hostname used to access the application (known as virtual hosting). If you want to know the hostname used to access your application, use… Continue

We've been working with the Apache ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment) team to setup load testing configurations on Stax so they can see how their enterprise messaging server (think Twitter for the Enterprise) performs under load. They have now published their first load testing results and it makes for interesting reading. Results: ESME’s First Load Test You may have notic… Continue