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Video: Why Chef for Cloud Automation?

This is just a short and sweet video cooked up by the Opscode 'Ninja Strike Squad' about why one might want to use Chef, an open source data center and cloud...

0 replies - 3407 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Your First Ruby Gem

I live-coded a new gem called Ruby::Enum at NYC.rb on Tuesday. This library adds enum-like functionality to Ruby.  Here’s my checklist for creating a new...

0 replies - 731 views - 05/18/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque

How to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queueHere at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their...

0 replies - 1024 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Are video codecs written in JavaScript the future? Mozilla has been showing off its new ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to H.264 that can be...

0 replies - 2053 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Debugging Stuck Ruby Processes: What to do Before You Kill -9

RailsConf 2013 has begun! To celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby...

0 replies - 1125 views - 05/06/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in Under 10 Minutes

SourceTraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications. It gives you insight into your web application performance such as...

0 replies - 590 views - 05/02/13 by Peter Giacomo L... in Articles

The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby

If you haven't heard, there's now a Ruby SDK for Windows Azure that provides access to Windows Azure Data Management services and some Service Bus...

0 replies - 735 views - 04/29/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

Modularity Still Utterly Elusive, Decades Later

Quick, when was Modula 2 created (by the legendary Niklaus Wirth)? Did you guess 1977? Bet not. Was having a discussion this morning with Kenan on a range...

0 replies - 2398 views - 04/24/13 by Rob Williams in Articles

Cloudbursing with Amazon EC2 and SQS

The concept of cloudbursting is very appealing. Who wouldn't want to maximize control and minimize costs by running a few servers in-house and borrowing...

0 replies - 1455 views - 03/29/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Getting Productive with the AWS SDK for Ruby

Learn best practices for using the AWS SDK for Ruby, including configuration, logging, debugging, consuming high and low level interfaces, collections,...

0 replies - 1331 views - 03/28/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/27)

How Many Hoops Does a Job Candidate Have to Jump Through? Here’s an interesting infographic for job seekers with notes to the recruiters to jump...

0 replies - 32118 views - 03/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Building an API w/ Rails

Thanks to everyone who turned out for my API talk at the Triangle Ruby Brigade. I wasn’t expecting such a large crowd and the resulting Q&A was...

0 replies - 1424 views - 03/20/13 by Matthew Bass in Articles

Cloudy (and other) Links from Last Week

Curator's Note: Every week, the Pie in the Sky blog publishes a list of links related to a range of topics - last week's are below.Cloud Windows Azure Mobile...

0 replies - 1773 views - 03/10/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

26 Links to the Cloud (Plus JavaScript, Ruby, and more)

 This week has been crazy busy. I'm really surprised I had time to find this many links. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Cloud New Add-ons in the...

0 replies - 1304 views - 03/04/13 by Larry Franks in Articles

Heroku: Use Unicorn to Add Concurrency to Rails Apps

Over at the Heroku blog, the team published a tutorial for improving performance of Rails apps by using a concurrent server.  In this case, they focused...

0 replies - 723 views - 02/28/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles