Impressions with Heroku: Just Another Nice Toy for Deploying Simple Ruby on Rails Applications

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:11:41 -0700

I finally had a chance to play with Heroku cause I wanted to quickly try out OneBody - open source Ruby on Rails based social network.

I followed the instruction to create my app. What's missing there is that you'd need to generate public/private key before calling 'heroku create urapp'. It's as simple as issuing 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' for Linux. see GitHub docs for more information.

I also tried to use the import interface at Heroku to import OneBody, but it always timed out. Heroku should have provided a simple import command via Heroku gem to create a new application through importing.

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Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:29:19 -0700

Today, Amazon announces Elastic Block Store(EBS). This is the final missing piece in their cloud computing offering.

RightScale wrote two very good blogs explaining EBS:

Clearly, RightScale has been testing EBS for quite a while prior ASW announced persistent storage support back in Apri.

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Impressions with Heroku: Just Another Nice Toy for Deploying Simple Ruby on Rails Applications

Amazon Web Services(AWS) Finally Offers Persistent Storage(Elastic Block Store)