ciaran_lee | erichammond: are you around? | 00:08 |
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erichammond | ciaran_lee: maybe | 00:27 |
ciaran_lee | erichammond: good answer :) I read your article on amazon about running mysql with EBS, and I notice you advocate 'automate startup from a base image' instead of rebundling an instance... | 00:35 |
ciaran_lee | and I was just wondering why it is considered better to do things this way? Do you do this for all your ec2 instances or just DB servers? | 00:37 |
erichammond | ciaran_lee: There are a number of valid approaches, each with their pros and cons. I allude to some of the benefits and drawbacks in my presentation at http://oscon2009talk.notlong.com though the slides don't get into too much detail. | 01:35 |
Debolaz | erichammond: Interesting presentation. | 06:13 |
erichammond | Debolaz: Fortunately, nobody recorded it ;-) | 06:14 |
* Debolaz read "unfortunately" there the first time. | 06:14 | |
erichammond | heh | 06:14 |
erichammond | I've given it twice, once in forty-five minutes and once in an hour and forty-five minutes, and managed to just barely fit it in both times. | 06:16 |
Debolaz | We're going to move a few of our company services over on EC2. It's nice with information like this that actually spells out the adventages/drawbacks of various methods. | 06:16 |
Debolaz | Heh, we're actually hiring perl developers too now. | 06:22 |
fallous | mmm, perl | 06:28 |
fallous | the runurl stuff is pretty nifty for setting up a box, but I need to benchmark it vs building an image for complex installs | 06:30 |
erichammond | Ah, that was a couple months ago. We filled our latest Perl developer position and are now seeking another HTML/CSS/JavaScript front end developer. | 06:31 |
fallous | funny thing about javascript... I thought I'd hate it due to browser hilarity, but if you stick with pretty standard DOM stuff it's really unsuckful | 06:31 |
erichammond | fallous: Yep, install time is a big factor in whether you need to bundle/build your own images. | 06:32 |
fallous | ended up doing the facebook game contract in javascript instead of Flash. taking a hit on ajax polling but it sure as hell is a lot more lightweight for what they wanted vs the flash plugin fun | 06:33 |
fallous | thankfully memcache and lighttpd makes up for most of that server-side hit | 06:36 |
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