by tjs on January 15, 2009
We’re evaluating using Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) to fire off full instances of our system for both dev and QA. That involves multiple servers and databases, it’s a non trivial task. I think RightScale is a great service which we’ll probably use if we move forward but at this point during testing and discovery I decided to muck around at a lower level. RightScale provides a very nice Ruby library to access AWS services.
So I wrote a simple ruby script that tracks changes in aws assets. Stuck it in a cron job and it notifies me by e-mail whenever there’s a change on our account. [click to continue…]
by tjs on January 6, 2009
There’ll be a CloudCamp in Indianapolis on January 28th. Judging from reports from CloudCamps in other cities it’s worth attending if you’re in the area.
by tjs on November 8, 2008
The hype parade continues. Cloud computing is the answer to almost any problem we’re facing. Yes, even global warming! Cloud Ave has just posted a classic hype fluff post titled Barack Obama and Cloud Computing. It goes a bit over the top trying to show how Obama’s policy are a big plus for cloud computing. Double hype alert! Both are new and show promise but have yet to be put to the test.
All the hype reminds me of the hype Aspect oriented programming (AOP) went through climaxing around 2004. AOP hype reached it peak when Daniel Sabbah, CTO of IBM Software said when speaking about AOP, “It is vital for our survival”. Blink. Cool stuff? Yeah. Really useful in some cases? Yeah? Vital to the survival of a multibillion dollar corporation? Blink. Oh, maybe he just meant programming in general!? Blink. In the end AOP is a useful tool in some specific places, the hype is gone and IBM has moved on to other things being vital for their survival (Blue Cloud?).
The dewpoint has hit and there’s one massive fog bank rolling in. Proceed with caution.
