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Automate Your Rails Deployment
This CitrusByte blog post gives an overview of using Phusion Passenger + Apache2 to automate rails deploymentScripting support with Axis2
Enjoy the world of scripting languages with Apache Axis2. Deploy scripting , invoke service using scripting and moreIs Twitter Responsible For Rail’s Image?
Is Twitter Responsible For Rail’s Image? Personally, I think not, however let’s take a look at the subject.Friendliest console installer EVER!
Friendliest console installer EVER! Shows a snippet of the Phusion Passenger installer for Ruby on Rails.Smells like a Google Search: Easily grab inbound search terms in Rails using search_sniffer
Sure you can mine your referrers in Google Analytics, but why not tailor your site to your users by peeking at what they were looking for when they found your site? The search_sniffer plugin makes it too easy to do just that.How to Parse RSS Feeds With Ruby
A close look at three Rails 2.1 bugs
Rails 2.1 introduces three annoying bugs. Let's fix them.This Week in Ruby (July 11, 2008)
Highlights from the Ruby community.DZone Snippets: Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness
6 Optimization Tips for Ruby MRI
MRI is slow, we all know it, but knowing the internals can help you optimize.Cloud computing hype overload
I’ve been working with what I used to call “utility computing” tools for about 6-9 months. However, for about the past 2 months, I’ve been seeing the term “cloud computing” all over the place, and there is so much buzz surrounding it that it’s reaching that magical point best described using Alan Greenspan’s words: “Irrational Exuberance”.
When Alan Greenspan used those words to describe the attitudes of investors toward the markets, what he was basically saying was that there were people who didn’t really know what they were doing, putting more money than they ought, into things they knew relatively little about. Further, he was saying that the decisions people were making with regards to where to put their money were a) bad, or at least b) not based on sound reasoning, or the ‘facts on the ground’.
This, I think, is where we are at with “cloud computing”. The blog post that put me over the edge is this one, for the record. I read Sean’s writings often enough, but this one strikes me as being a little off, a little sensationalistic, not based in reality, and a little misleading.
Maybe he just didn’t put enough qualifiers in there. His post might make more sense if he limited its scope and provided more facts, but I guess it’s just an opinion piece so he decided not to go that route, and that’s his prerogative I guess.
By limiting the scope, I mean he should’ve realized that there are millions of web sites currently scaling quite nicely without the use of cloud computing. In addition, some of the new ones that are having issues are also not using cloud computing, and when they hit bumps in the road, they make it through, and the great thing is that they also share their stories, and those stories indicate that a cloud (or, the current cloud offerings) wouldn’t have helped much (there’s lots of other evidence of that too). What would’ve helped is if they had paid more attention to:
- monitoring
- initial infrastructure design
- their own app code and app design