Posts tagged with: AWS
- Setting the AWS region when using simple_record
- Because I couldn’t for the life of me find the information in the simple_record documentation, here’s how: SimpleRecord.establish_connection(sdb_access_key, sdb_secret_key, :server => sdb_region_domain_name) You can find the SimpleDB region URLs on Amazon’s Regions and Endpoints page. Read more – ‘Setting the AWS region when using simple_record’.
- Introducing Chaos Monkey
- At the Next Web Hackathon I whipped a fun little tool called Chaos Monkey. Inspired by Netflix, I made a Scala program that randomly takes up and down your AWS EC2 instances. Why would anyone do that? Simple, to design for and work around failure. And it’s kinda funny! It’s early days but perhaps you […] Read more – ‘Introducing Chaos Monkey’.