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 ...
Unwrapping UploadJuicer
It says something about the sorry state of my blogging lately that my blog is the last place I’m announcing my latest project, Juicer. :) It’s a handy service for offloading image uploading and resizing from your web app. Now you don’t have to tie up your server to handle long uploads or to do...
Double Shot #573
Been a very long week, but I’m happy with the way various projects are improving.
Amazon RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service or MySQL in the Cloud for Ruby On Rails. – A quick How-To.
yUMLmeRails – Rake tasks and Shoes app to create model diagrams for Rails. (via Under the Hat)
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Double Shot #571
Today I think I shall be a performance expert.
Funding Thinking Sphinx – Pat Allen is looking for sponsorship to spend a month working on the Thinking Sphinx plugin. That’s a good cause.
Mu – Facebook Connect library written in JavaScript.
Introducing Amazon RDS – The Amazon Relational Database Service – Essentially, canned MySQL servers in...
Double Shot #564
Monday looks good when you’ve been sick in bed all weekend.
SEO FAQ – Derek Powazek is still dumping on the SEO types, and they’re still not happy about it.
GraphicsMagick – Claims to be a superior alternative to ImageMagick.
Full Text Search on Heroku – Using postgres native FT indexing.
How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2...
Double Shot #529
I’ll likely be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my main dev box some time next week – after I have a good bootable backup. Meanwhile, I’ve collected a bunch of links to (I hope) avoid some of the trouble spots.
Other stuff
Clogger – Configurable request logging as Rack middleware.
Magic Model Generator 0.5 – Generate Rails...
Automating ec2 deployments with Ruby
Recently I’ve had a couple of clients choose Amazon EC2 for their deployment environments, so I’ve been spending more time playing with EC2 lately than I ever had before. I set out to create a repeatable and time-efficient deployment process, and the result of my work is an easy to use ruby script, detailed...
