#ec2 (8 links)
A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications)
- DevStructure devstructure.com
DevOps is hard, we can help. Simple and automated development environments. Experiment, collaborate and deploy with confidence. From $7 per month.
- Cloudkick | Cloud monitoring and managment tools cloudkick.com
- Cloud Elasticity « Timothy Fitz timothyfitz.wordpress.com
It’s time to take advantage of the cloud’s free parallelism. Most existing use cases merely map existing techniques to the cloud. Elasticity is a critical mesaurement: the time it takes to start a node up, and your minimum time commitment per node. Short lived but massively parallel tasks that were once impossible thrive in a highly elastic world. Big prediction: Clouds are going to get more elastic indefinitely; they’ll trend with Moore’s law.
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way thomas.broxrost.com
This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,