Amazon AWS
December 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Designing an application to use AWS requires - to my way of thinking - a fundamentally different approach to application architecture.
Tags: Akamai, amazon, architecture, aws, bad idea, bucket, computing, hash table, HTTP, infrastructure, servers, virtualization
Ruby on Rails 2.x
December 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ruby on Rails is a great web framework because it establishes smart conventions and application structure. To those of us who already were making well-structured web applications (particularly true in the Java community), it took us a while to see what the big deal is about Rails. After all, we were already using many of the practices Rails brought to the masses.
Tags: convention, deployment, java, lisp, python, rails, ruby, servers, web applications