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July 15, 2011: Stale Links

The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...

July 15, 2011: Stale Links

The problem with sitting on these daily link posts is that the links go out of date. Sigh. Here are some links. Twitter I found a couple of things about this InfoQ article about Twitter’s infrastructure odd. I was expecting it to be a bit more of a Rails hit-piece, frankly, so it was nice...

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 ...

Amazon EC2, HPC Edition

We have been proponents of Amazon’s EC2 service from  the very beginning and – warning: shameless self-promotion – have built some pretty impressive applications on top of it. Check out the Sweety High social networking site, for example. No...

Adding an Amazon S3 filestore to AttachmentSaver

I recently had to take preexisting code and modify it so it would save its data on S3.  The plugin used for saving the data was AttachmentSaver, which comes with filestores for the local file system and for in-database storage.  Trying to touch the least amount of the existing codebase, I decided to add the...

Blocking Amazon advertisements

Dealing with advertisements is a part of life, from watching TV to running free apps on the iPhone.  It’s made Google the envy of all tech companies.  Fortunately for those who want to minimize exposure to them, there are some options such as DVR for the TV and Adblock Plus for Firefox.  I haven’t read...

Double Shot #493

There are days I need to remind myself that I’m happier on the open source side of the fence. Infomaki – Open source usability testing tool written in Rails, from the NY Public Library. (via Konigi) Ruby Code Quality and Metric_Fu – Some notes on getting the current metric_fu to run properly. Why I use Safari for Development...