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« Previous EntriesCloud Cafe #38 Haddop and Cascading With Flightcaster
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009This is a great podcast with Bradford Cross a senior architect with Flightcaster. He has been working with Flightcast for three months and wait to you hear the really cool stuff he has done with “Big Data”. Here is a list of the topics and technologies we discuss in this podcast:
Freaking Flight Dealys
Rails on Heruko
Amazon [...]
Hadoop and Cascading – AJUG – 07/21/09
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Sorry for the shaken hand-held production. My tripod broke… Look at it this way Content is King and Chris Curtin’s content was brilliant.
Amazon Cloud Big News
Monday, May 18th, 2009Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns — including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch, simply select the Amazon EC2 instances [...]
EC2 Infrastructure
Monday, December 15th, 2008Very well documented post on the AWS infrastructure behind MondTouch’s wik.is. If you are a cloud junkie, it doesn’t get any better than this:
Read the complete article here…
Amazon EC2 instances in Europe!
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008Amazon EC2 Crosses the Atlantic
RightAWS 1.9.0 released
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008RightAWS 1.9.0 Ruby interface for all AWS cloud services. It now includes support for the EC2 windows features as well for CloudFront. Plus a number of bug fixes as well as enhancements. Download from http://rubyforge.org/projects/rightaws
Hosting elastic applications in the Cloud using Scalr
Friday, November 21st, 2008Hosting elastic applications in the Cloud using Scalr
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What Color is Your Cloud?
Monday, November 17th, 2008I’ll admit I have hated CA for as long as I can remember. At the first startup I ever worked at we used to have Mary Kay cosmetic like sessions with “Kill CA” painted in Pink blood all over our faces (not really, but close). Although, I have never worked for Tivoli [...]
CloudDroplets
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Drop 1
For the rest of the year I am working for the man… Hence, I have a 1 hour commute every morning. I am going to try and make good use of my time by recording short Cloud briefings each morning reviewing any relevant cloud news in the cloud-o-Sphere. This is my [...]
EC2 on Windows
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I couldn’t sleep last night so I started playing with the new Windows AMI’s on Amazon’s AWS. Here is a short and sweet howto:
First I updated my Elasticfox plugin to 1.6.000075
Then I brought up Elasticfox and did an AMI search for “windows”. I noticed there were a few public AMI’s out there so [...]
Showtime – Windows on EC2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Windows on EC2 Documentation
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Running Windows
Windows on Amazon’s Cloud
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Amazon EC2 running Windows Server
Starting later this Fall, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will offer you the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server. Today, you can choose from a variety of Unix-based operating systems, and soon you will be able to configure your instances to run the Windows Server operating [...]
New AWS PDF’s and Reference Cards
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Available in PDF form, the cards summarize the most important data types, function calls, and command line tools for each service.
Cards are now available for AAWS, DevPay, EC2, FWS, Mechanical Turk, and SQS, with more to follow before too long.
Print these out, tape them above your desk, and show your colleagues that you are an [...]
Oracle on Amazon’s Cloud (EC2)
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Oracle in the Cloud
Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud
Cloud Cafe #15 – RightScale the On-Ramp to the Cloud
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak with Michael Crandell the CEO of Rightscale on their recent “Multi-Cloud” provider support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Micheal walks me through the new announcement and I hit him with a few questions. We also talk a little bit about what they are doing with Eucalyptus, [...]
The On-Ramp to the Cloud
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008RightScale announced today that they are adding support for two more cloud infrastructure providers. They have added support for Flexiscale and GoGrid. Some have considered RightScale as sort of the on-ramp to Amazon’s AWS. With this new multi cloud infrastructure support they might start calling them the on-ramp to the cloud.
Press Release
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Panda is an open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming.
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Runs completely within Amazon’s Web Services utilising EC2, S3 and SimpleDB.
Everything contained within one elegant Merb application.
Support for the numerous encoding profiles FFmpeg supports including FLV, h264 for Flash a iPhone formats.
Panda gem for painless integration with Ruby on Rails and Merb.
Lovely little admin dashboard for managing your videos.
Top 10 Reasons for NOT Using a Cloud
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Today I realized that I have been kind of stubborn about opening up to the idea of not using a cloud (go figure!). When I read articles that ask the question, “Should the enterprise use the cloud?”, I typically get annoyed and respond with “It’s not a binary question.” Enterprises will [...]
Recent AWS Links
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 AWS Security White Paper
The paper provides answers to a number of questions about certifications, physical security, backups, and issues specific to particular services.
Announcing the AWS Start-Up Challenge – Win $100,000 in Prizes
a contest for entrepreneurs and start-ups that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, a potential investment [...]
