Category Archives: Amazon Web Services

Ruby Messaging Shootout

June 30, 2008 – 8:44 am

We have spent a bit of time looking into various Ruby messaging systems. We briefly posted about the speed of Ruby messaging in the past and promised some more detailed numbers. We will share a bit of code to run some basic tests on various Ruby messaging systems, and benchmark the performance. We are sure [...]

By Dan | Also posted in Development, Devver, Ruby | Comments (7)

Speed with Messaging Matters

June 18, 2008 – 9:25 am

Devver started with a good idea (web-based tools for Ruby
hackers) and a working prototype, which couldn’t scale. We started working on making Devver scalable and decided to go with EC2, from Amazon. Unfortunately we quickly learned that a library, Rinda, which we built our messaging system on, couldn’t connect between multiple EC2 instances.
No worries, we [...]

By Dan | Also posted in Ruby | Comments (3)

Using Ruby to configure EC2 instances: a lesson learned

June 6, 2008 – 10:31 pm

On Tuesday, we had Mike Culver from Amazon give a great talk about Amazon’s web services. We had pretty much decided on using AWS for Devver, but Mike’s talk convinced us even more.
So for the past few days we’ve been porting our code to work with EC2 . We’ve also been building scripts that will [...]

By Ben | Also posted in Ruby |