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Amazon Web Services Blog: Friday Links

chao — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:13:30 -0000

Clipped by chao to Collect writings about Coolchaser

Friday Links

've been on the road a lot this past month, including trips to Orlando, Barcelona, London, and Las Vegas.

Duringf that time I've met a lot of interesting people and have accumulated a whole bunch of relevant links:

eWeek just published a new article, Enomalism Helps Manage Virtual Machines. Read all about their viewpoint on this new web-based management tool for EC2 instances and images.
O'Reilly Radar just wrote about Jamglue Growth and Scaling. They spent just $1.50 per month on Amazon Web Services during development, then $15 per month in beta, rising to $600 per month in production.
Greg Linden wrote about Yahoo Pig, a parallel processing architecture which runs on top of Hadoop. Pig makes it possible for "regular developers" to take advantage of a large number of processors to analyze gigantic data sets. Given that Hadoop already runs on top of EC2 and S3, I suspect that it won't be long before we hear that Pig is running there as well.
Computerworld had some words to say about MySQL and S3, including a review of Mark Atwood's new MySQL storage engine for S3. Mark has recently posted his MySQL 2007 conference presentation.
Paul Bissett from WeoGeo has an interesting post about Building a Web 2.0 Mapping Solution. Paul runs the numbers, noting that their hardware budget was about $500K, which was reduced to around $20K with liberal application of EC2 and S3 resources.
Coolchaser is a MySpace profile editing and styling tool, powered by EC2 and S3. You can read more about this on their blog.
Blingee is another S3-powered MySpace tool, serving up hundreds of thousands of images per day.

And that's about all for today.

-- Jeff;

Amazon Web Services Blog: Precious - Ruby, Gems and AWS

chao — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:41:24 -0000

Clipped by chao to develop a ruby on rails web app

Precious - Ruby, Gems and AWS

Ruby got a new face-lift with the new Rails framework. I was always fascinated with the Ruby language. 25 lines of Java code gets shrunk to 4 lines of equivalent Ruby code plus its more readable. And with Rails, it gets a new kick. It is always impressive to hear people say "I am a full-time Ruby on Rails Developer".

There are plenty of resources for those who would like to get started on this technology:

There are lots of Amazon S3 libraries in Ruby: Some are full fledged libraries like AWS:S3 (Marcel Molina of 37signals talks about his library and why he chose Amazon S3 here - worth a read!), while some libraries are getting started types so that you can customize as per your needs. Some are command shell utilities like rSh3ll, while some are gems like S33r and ruby-s3 for easy installation.

Zachary Holt created a powerful library for Amazon SQS in Ruby. He has added some cool utility functions such as ability to forcibly delete a queue etc.

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chao — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:39:29 -0000

Clipped by chao to find the best credit card rewards

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