MountainWest RubyConf 2008: Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby
Amazon's suite of web services make it really simple to dynamically scale applications. Using these services allow developers to focus on the core of their applications rather than on how to scale them. My talk will show how simple it is to build a Ruby application that uses Amazon's EC2, SQS and S3 services to dynamically scale up and down based upon processing load.
by Jonathan Younger