Videos tagged with Amazon EC2

Chef is a young and ambitious Ruby DSL built for easy configuration management. Nick Zadrozny will take a look at the philosophy of configuration management, the basics of Chef, and some recipes to build out a basic Rails server.

This is the last of three screencasts where looking at a couple new libraries to help you scale your Rails applications. In this episode we start by learning about rubber, a capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale on Amazon EC2. Then we look at a background job system with a killer user interface called Cloud Crowd. Lastly we look at a web service called Mad Mimi, whic...