A typical Rails deployment involves configuring a number of services via configuration files. Common examples include httpd.conf, nginx.conf, memcached.conf, monitrc, my.cnf, haproxy.conf, et al. These little files are the laces that hold your app together; the tiniest mistake or misconfiguration will usually take your whole operation down. On top of this, if you’ve got multiple [...]
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Like many, I’ve been sort of infatuated with Amazon Web Services lately. My new projects almost always use S3 for backend file storage at this point; it’s not just cheaper, it’s also a simple way to segregate static files from your app servers. Overall, S3 works pretty much as advertised.
EC2, however, does _not_ work as [...]
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Shinji Kuwayama is a Rails developer in Chicago, Illinois.