Hosting applications on Amazon EC2 is a relatively painless process. Getting instances set up and ready to deploy applications to can literally take minutes. However, once your virtual infrastructure gets larger, you start to run into more complicated issues. One of those is the limit on the number of static IP addresses (called Elastic IP [...]
Read MoreAmazon announced their new tablet product this week, the Kindle Fire, which by all accounts looks to be a serious contender in the tablet space for consuming media (music, TV, movies, books) from Amazon’s growing empire of cloud based streaming services. The Fire runs a specialized version of Android tailored to finding and consuming Amazon [...]
Read MoreThis article was recently dug up by our very own Chris Lamothe and directs some pointed criticism at frameworks. The post is still amusing even though it is now six years old. The article is still relevant and I think acts as a measure and challenge to developers as to how far (or not far) [...]
Read MoreA while back I had the opportunity to use RightScale during the development of a system that processed very large amounts of web analytics data. RightScale is a layer on top of Amazon AWS that, among other things, allows you to define roles for each type of server that you need. These roles are used [...]
Read MoreWe’ve got a small internal project at Cantina that aims to make use of the Groovy on Grails framework and some of our Grails plugins, and we plan on using S3 as the persistent storage for the project. We decided to test out a small EC2 instance at Amazon to use as an integration point [...]
Read MoreWe’ve released our first ever plugin for the Groovy on Grails web application framework! You can see the details over on our new Grails Plugins page. In short, we wanted to build something that would manage static file assets such as images, movies, audio, Flash, and perhaps down the road, site backups, on the Amazon [...]
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