This article is a sort of series I'm writing with my experiences of learning the EC2 cloud while learning Sphinx search. The more I learn about Sphinx and use it, the more impressed I am. And also the more possibilities that I see. I believe this... Continue Reading
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This article is largely for my own notes so I can remember what I did. I am just starting to get my feet wet in the EC2 world. I am a programmer by trade, but have been forced by necessity into being a system engineer also, but I'm absolutley not... Continue Reading
Okay, day two of learning EC2 and attempting to get a Sphinx Full Text Search server up and running on my Ubuntu EC2 instance and data on the EBS volume.
As far as AMIs the web site Alestic has been a big help, but today I changed to the official... Continue Reading
I was amazed how much attention my last blog post about the speed tests I had done after after enabling CloudFront on my S3 static content. The post was re-tweeted over and over on Twitter and today I even saw follow-ups of people saying they were... Continue Reading
How big of a difference does Cloudfront make? I have been slowly transitioning more and more of our services to the Amazon Cloud with S3 and SimpleDB. We had a particularly busy weekend last week (which will continue to increase for the next... Continue Reading
Several years ago, back when I was a budding junior web developer back at MindComet--better known as the evil empire--I was part of a fantastic (if under-appreciated and under-paid) development team that included at the time folks like Jerry Jackson... Continue Reading
So I had a few minutes here before I head out the door, and I started thinking more about the coming merger of TV and Internet that has been fabled for years but finally seems realistic. I started thinking who stands to benefit from this? How can... Continue Reading
So I'm really interested in trying to get working with Amazon's S3 this summer. I'm hoping I have time to do that. I have been worried about the additional responsibility of really opening up the floodgates for our huge user base to start... Continue Reading