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Erlang and Ruby Roundup: Vertebra, Scaling with Fuzed, Github

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing,
Grid Computing,
Ruby on Rails,
Messaging

Recently a few popular Ruby projects have started using Erlang. We look at how EngineYard's Vertebra, Powerset's Fuzed and recently Github make use of Erlang.

Cloud Tools bring Java EE on Amazon EC2

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Virtualization,
Data Access,
Cloud Computing

Chris Richardson the author of "POJOs in Action", has released Cloud Tools, a set of tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It's a Groovy framework that provides an API for launching EC2 instances; configuring MySQL, Tomcat servers; and deploying more web applications. In addition, it can also run JMeter and collect performance metrics.

Amazon upgrades EC2 with Persistent Storage

Community
Architecture
Topics
Virtualization,
Data Access,
Cloud Computing

Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), which delivers Hardware as a Service (HaaS), is adding persistent storage to its list of features. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels write that "Persistent storage for Amazon EC2 will be offered in the form of storage volumes which you can mount into your EC2 instance as a raw block storage device."

Heroku and Morph AppSpaces: two new solutions to Rails hosting

Community
Ruby
Topics
SaaS,
Performance & Scalability,
Cloud Computing,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Grid Computing,
Ruby on Rails

Heroku and Morph Labs are Ruby on Rails hosting providers, offering a complete stack of software and easy to use interfaces to get your applications up and running in a few minutes. We talked to both parties to find out more about their offers.

Hypertable Lead Discusses Hadoop and Distributed Databases

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Architecture,
Java
Topics
Data Access,
Cloud Computing,
Clustering & Caching

Two open source projects related to Hadoop, HBase and Hypertable, provide Big Table inspired scalable database implementations. InfoQ sat down with Doug Judd, Principal Search Architect at Zvents, Inc. and Hypertable project founder, to discuss its implementation.

Hosting a Web Site on Amazon's EC2

Community
Java
Topics
Virtualization

Codesta's Oliver Chan provides some hints and tips for developers looking to use Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud to host a web site.

Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers

Community
Java
Topics
Virtualization,
Cloud Computing,
Clustering & Caching

Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon's EC2.

Amazon's SimpleDB and IBM's Blue Cloud Continue the Rise of Cloud Computing

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Virtualization,
SaaS,
Grid Computing

Earlier this week Amazon introduced a beta of SimpleDB, a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. SimpleDB compliments Amazon's other computing services Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. The announcement comes roughly a month after IBM announced their Blue Cloud initiative.