I’m configuring myself a VMWare virtual machine running (well *instaling* right now) CentOS-4.4. Rather than worry about what to (and not to) install I’ve just opted for the 4CD “Everything” method. Hey… It works . I will be using this virtual machine to work with the EC2 tools. (yea… go figure. I work with Linux [...]
So now we know that we need to look at things in terms of pools or “stacks” of resources… But how? Thats a good question! And from here on out… It gets technical (even though we’re going to be talking in high level generalities) Now lets take on step back, and examine the tools that [...]
Our good friends at Amazon arrive on the scene. First they offered a stream of services which were interesting, but never really got your attention. But this last announcement. That one changes everything. And it does change everything. Unfortunately people are thinking of the service in terms of their current ideas of scaling infrastructure. And [...]
Lets take a look at your traditional web application setup (during development, or early stages with no funding). You might find something like this. We have a web, database, and specialty server. The specialty server is probably doing whatever makes the company unique. For simplicities sakes we’ll say its just crunching data from the database [...]
Often times theres something that will happen throughout my day, and It’ll spark in me to talk, yet again, about how to learn. Most of the times when someone is considered "smart" it’s because they know a lot of things. Having a good memory, yes, is indicative of a smart person. But it’s not that [...]
In this article Isabel equates Amazons EC2 to a vehicles “Oh shit bars.” Which, I think, Is a very valid use of the service. But lets not overlook the dirty little secret of “web two point oh” which is: Theres a *LOT* of data to be crunched. There… I said it. See, people dont want [...]
I wonder if anybody has put any thought into using Amazons SQS as a backend for apache log file consolidation… It’d work perfectly… i think.
Let me share some perspective on what bandwidth numbers actually mean… Because talking about 1000Gb is a term that doesnt actually connect with anything in people minds 1000Gb/month means that on a 31 day month you are sending out (numbers rated as 1000 equals 1k because thats prevalent) 373Kbytes per second… 22Mbytes per minute 1.3Gbytes [...]