It’s Time To Double Up (Using Amazon’s RDS Read Replication Database Servers With Heroku For Master-Slave Replication)
Heroku is great for rapid application development but if you want to run multiple databases it doesn’t provide any options. Running multiple databases in a master-slave orientation can provide an elegant solution to many scaling issues. This can ...
Getting into arguments with JavaScript
The arguments object in JavaScript looks like an array, but really it is just an array-like object. It has a length property that returns the number of arguments supplied to the calling function. And callee, which actually returns the calling function....
Self Awareness (an exploration of the JavaScript Module Pattern)
In starting a new JavaScript plugin, my coworker (Enrico Rubboli) and I began by looking at various design patterns to determine what would best suite our needs. After a bit of research we decided to go with the self executing module pattern. For examp...
Sass, Heroku, and you.
I like Sass and I like Heroku, but they don’t necessarily like each other. Because of Heroku’s read-only file system and Sass’s tendency to write files to disk, a workaround is needed to get the two to play nicely together. Heroku...
JRubyConf 2010
ELC is proudly sponsoring JRubyConf this year. This year, we’ve seen more and more cases of JRuby making its way into existing Java-centric enterprises and bootstrapped startups alike. As the Ruby ecosystem keeps growing, new VM/Implementation ...
RightScale: How The Cloud Will Scale
RightScale, which was built by ELC on top of Amazon’s EC2 cloud service is featured today in a ReadWriteWeb story that highlights some impressive cloud growth numbers, including an increase in cloud computing usage growth of 1000% in just one year.
Cloudy With A Chance of DNS Services
Here is an idea what to do if you are tired of managing DNS servers. BlueCat Networks’ Proteus Cloud Services is the first managed DNS service to offer IP address management (IPAM) hosted in the cloud.
160,000 Phones Each Day Do Not Lie
Smart phones are redefining the definition of mass market. The iPhone is routinely shattering sales records, but feels Android phones breathing down its neck. There are massive volumes in play and it is critical to your business to choose the right pla...
How To Reduce Your Cloud Hosting Cost
When you are planning hardware resources for a web presence that needs to be available, you tend to assume the worst case scenario, the maximum connections that need to be supported - and then some to make sure you don’t go down when there is one or ...
Cloud Computing To Drive Server Hardware
Cloud computing will be a key force behind hardware sales over the next few years, IDC believes. In fact, the investments are significant enough to be considered a whole new era in IT infrastructures and not just replacements, which highlights the quic...
Dreamworks Big Into Cloud Computing
Future animations from Dreamworks SKG will not be rendered on its own servers anymore, but outsourced to Cerelink, the studio announced. The company said that it will use Cerelink’s supercomputing infrastructure at the New Mexico Applications Centre ...
Government Approves Cloud Apps
If there is a concern about cloud applications that we here of these days, then it certainly is the security of cloud apps. Where is the data stored? How secure is the environment? Can it be as secure as if you were to store the data locally? Of course...
