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Programming for the Amazon EC2 cloud

LOFTY CODE

Author(s): DAN FROST

We show you some techniques for harnessing the benefits of cloud technology.

Everyone is talking about the promise of cloud computing, but when it comes to implementation, some of the early adopters have simply deployed cloud services by copying older methods used in conventional environments. In fact, the cloud can do much more for you. Running sites on EC2 is easy, but really making use of the scalability and flexibility of cloud computing requires a new approach. In this article, I describe some techniques for building the benefits of cloud computing into your infrastructure. Although I use examples based on the Ruby language and Amazon’s EC2 cloud environment, these concepts also apply to other languages and cloud vendors.


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