Summary: Panel Wesley Beary (twitter github blog) Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book) David Brady (twitter github blog ADDcasts) James Edward Gray (twitter github blog) Katrina Owen (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 02:07 - Best of Parley Method Chaining Benefits by Patrick Veverka 03:41 - The Cloud Cloud Computing (Wikipedia) EngineYard Terremark 05:30 - Services offered in the Amazon Cloud Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) Amazon CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN) Amazon DynamoDB 06:28 - VPS Providers Linode - Xen VPS Hosting Rackspace Cloud 07:19 - Difference between VPS Providers and Cloud Resources 09:02 - Cost and Storage VMware RightScale Cloud Management Heroku 17:30 - Types/Categories of Cloud Services DNS Management Block Storage (EBS on EC2) Database related services Low balancing related services Email 19:16 - SaaS vs Cloud 26:59 - Preferred tools for Provisioning Chef Puppet Labs 28:04 - Getting Started with SaaS Instagram Architecture: 14 Million Users, Terabytes Of Photos, 100s of Instances, Dozens Of Technologies Instagram Engineering Blog 35:32 - fog - The Ruby cloud services library SimpleDB 37:47 - Moving to the Cloud Transience Colos vs Clouds 47:48 - Heroku API Running Heroku on Heroku by Noah Zoschke Picks TotalSpaces - the ultimate grid spaces manager for your Mac (James) Random Shopper (James) xkcd (David) The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (David) Power of 60 (Katrina) Thesaurus.com (Katrina) Wordoid (Katrina) Lenovo ThinkPad X230 Ultrathin & Light Laptop (Avdi) Epic Rap Battles of History (Avdi) Iowa City, Iowa (Wesley) ithlete Heart Rate Variability Monitor (Wesley) The Hobbit (Chuck) The Hobbit Soundtrack (Chuck) Next Week Learning from the Past with Arlen Walker Book Club The next Ruby Rogues Book Club Pick will be Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz. We will be interviewing Sandi on January 2, 2013, with the episode airing January 9, 2013. The publisher, Pearson/Addison-Wesley is offering a discount via InformIT.com. First create a user account: www.informit.com/join SAVE 40% When You Buy 2: www.informit.com/ruby Add books of choice to Shopping Cart, then enter the code SAVEONRUBY during Checkout (Includes FREE SHIPPING within the U.S.!) Transcript DAVID: Dear monkeys! Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net. This episode is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of RubyMine. If you like having an IDE that provides great inline debugging tools, built in version control, and intelligent code insight and refactorings, check out RubyMine by going to jetbrains.com/ruby. This podcast is sponsored by New Relic. To track and optimize your application performance, go to rubyrogues.com/newrelic. CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 85 of the Ruby Rogues podcast! This week on our panel, we have Avdi Grimm. AVDI: Hello from Pennsylvania! CHUCK: David Brady. DAVID: I will not make jokes during the intro. I will not make jokes during the intro. CHUCK: James Edward Gray. JAMES: I always make jokes during the intro. CHUCK: Katrina Owen. KATRINA: Hello from Oslo! CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv. I really quickly want to announce that I'm going to be teaching a Ruby on Rails Course this spring, and you can sign up at railsrampup.com. We also have special guest and that's Wesley. Is it Berry or Beery? WESLEY: Berry like the animal. Or the fruit, I guess. CHUCK: Do you want to introduce yourself real quick? I don't think you've been on the show before. WESLEY: Sure, yeah. My name's Wesley Beary,
