Learn how a small Civic Software company built an API to serve millions of requests per day. Learn about the challenges faced & lessons learned during design and deployment of a high-traffic web service built on App Engine, and about combining App Engine with external services (postgres and background tasks …
Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there. http://sdruby.com/podcast/49
Amazon has rapidly established itself as the major player in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) domain of cloud computing. Author of Cloud Application Architectures and enStratus founder and CTO George Reese provides this introduction into establishing a cloud infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Learn how to setup servers and …