For the second year in a row, AlwaysOn has named New Relic on the 2013 OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies list in the Cloud Management and Tools category. Each year AlwaysOn looks the top emerging companies that are creating game-changing approaches, technologies and new business opportunities in the world of cloud infrastructure, software-as-a-service and on-demand computing.
We're excited to be part of this prestigious list that includes many of our partners and customers.
…Continuent , Brian Aker from HP Cloud Services , and Peter Zaitsev from Percona and the keynote panel on MySQL 5.6 and the future of MySQL in the cloud with all of these speakers as panelists.
I found the invited keynote presentations from Tomas Ulin of Oracle and Matt Aslett of 451 Research very insightful. My major takeaways from those talks were:
Oracle is investing a tremendous amount of time and energy into development …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
- Dalibor Nasevic: Development Setup
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Surge, BioWare, Tungsten, deviantART, Aconex, Hadapt, Mathworks, AppDynamics, ScaleOut, Membase, CloudSigma, Man
- Jason Seifer: Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion
- Biodegradable Geek: This vs That — Be Tech Agnostic
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: One of my favorite additions to Rails 3 - ActiveRecord::Store - brings sexy back to old unsexy MySQL
…application environments." ( Gartner, " DevOps: Born in the Cloud and Coming to the Enterprise," Cameron Haight, May 2011)
"One specific focus of DevOps for some IT organizations is the shift toward configuration as code. In this context, DevOps borrows from the fact that as developers code applications with business logic, the infrastructure can be coded via configuration logic or directives." ( Gartner, "Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2013," Ronni Colville…
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Who really needs Amazon cloud?
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Momoro Machine: Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial
- Railsmine: RedDotRubyConf 2011 links & resources
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1073
- Rails Dog: Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby
"The MySQL Ecosystem and Cloud Computing"
Breakout Sessions on Oracle MySQL
Sunny Bains, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
Topic: "MySQL 5.6: What's New in InnoDB"
Dmitri Kravtchuk, MySQL Performance Architect, Oracle
Topic: "MySQL 5.6: Performance Benchmarks, Tuning, and ‘Best' Practices"
Luís Soares, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle
Topic: "MySQL 5.6: Redefining …
- MySQL Performance Blog: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!
- New Relic: More on Managing Real World Rails Apps at Massive Scale: An Interview with Joshua Warchol, Vice President of Technology at Fanzt
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: MySQL 5.5 and 5.1 Support in Alpha
- till's blog: Hosted MySQL: Amazon RDS (and backups)
- 4 Lines of Code: Fundamental attribution error of programming
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: My OS X Rails installation using Homebrew and rbenv, step by step
Shortage of Cloud IT Talent
IDC predicts that the explosion of new cloud services will lead to a critical shortage of the IT staff trained to work with those specific cloud technologies.
All of these predictions indicate opportunities opening up on the horizon. If you are a business still offering packaged software applications to customers, you might want to look into moving to a cloud subscription model. Alternatively, seek out the opportunities left behind by those moving out of the packaged …
- Global Nerdy: IDC's Smartphone Stats for 4Q 2012, and a Review of Their Mobile OS Share Prediction for 2015
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: What's Wrong with "HTML5″
- Rails Inside: How a Realtime SMS Questions Service Scaled To Super Bowl Traffic with Rails
DevOps/ Cloud SIG - Lake Mary, FL
Portland DevOps user group meeting
Tuesday
Food Fight Show - Elasticsearch
Chef Cafe in Austin, TX
Chef Introductory Workshop - Minneapolis - SOLD OUT
Wednesday
Triangle DevOps - Learn that Failure Comes in Flavors
Chef Cafe in San Francisco
Thursday
Chef Introductory Workshop - Boston - SOLD OUT
DevOps ATL - Gene Kim on DevOps Patterns Distilled…
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Midwest 2010 Friday
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in Ruby: 1.9.3-p286, JRuby 1.7RC2, Sidekiq Pro and Much More
- Riding Rails - home: Community Highlights
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Lightning Talks
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: From Solo to Full Chef
- Scout ~ The Blog: Self-funded = no compromises
…Christmas Eve failure . Adrian Cockcroft, Cloud Architect at Netflix, said they've investigated creating their own load balancing service, but that "we try not to invest in undifferentiated heavy lifting."
So resiliency is still not part of the standard package. There's an ROI calculation that has to be made. Yet the path Netflix would have to take in creating a hybrid architecture is fairly clear, Netflix prefers to concentrate on features …
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: The Stuff Divide
- Software by Rob: 9 Ways to Decrease Your Chance of Bootstrapping a Successful Company
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 11-6-09
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #903
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 313 - Life of a software engineer
- Giles Bowkett: Hollywood vs. the Internet, and Inbred Geek-Culture Fantasies vs. Reality
…AndiMann : "Only 1% of # Amazon users should care about # cloud scalability, elasticity". Brilliant!
@Guerrero_FJ : Always remember: 'scalability problems should be solved when there are scalability problems.' # leanstartup
Santa's Architecture : It's a little known fact that Santa Clause was an early queue innovator. Faced with the problem of delivering a planet full of presents in one night, Santa, in his hacker's workshop, created …
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- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1008
- Viget.com Blogs: Rails Admin Interface Generators
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Introducing the Rails API Project
- Giles Bowkett: Underpromoting Information Products For Fun And Profit
- Practicing Ruby: Issue #17: Interesting Ruby Hacker-Writers
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
We provide free New Relic standard for all Cloud accounts (and a free trial of New Relic premium for 14 days). You can enable it on your dashboard by following these instructions: https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/21694706-monitor-applications-with-the-new-relic-add-on
Engine Yard also provides integration with the Fitter Happier gem to allow you to monitor uptime, amongst other things, and choose what URLs provide a good end-to-end test of your site so that …
- Ruby Inside: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby
- New Relic: Community New: Best Practices for Using New Relic with Engine Yard and More
- RailsTips by John Nunemaker: EventMachine and Passenger
- Scout ~ The Blog: 5 Pillars of Rails Cluster Monitoring
- Opscode Blog: Using Chef to Add New Relic Server Monitoring
- Jake Scruggs: Rails Conf 2010 Day 1