Videos tagged with Amazon SQS

This talk would be a case study in using Ruby to deploy, monitor, and manage a cluster of servers running in the Amazon Web Services virtual cloud. The example cluster is operated by OtherInbox.com, a consumer-driven website that automates email tasks and spam blocking. Every system administration task imaginable is carried out using Ruby, which means the developers can enjoy all of Ruby’...

Summary In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VM...

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

Summary In this QCon presentation, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on the Amazon.com platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business ...

Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon’s Simple Que Service web service to build backdoors into systems.