January 12, 2011
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Luke Kanies, Puppet's original author, talks about how Puppet relies on modeling and why. Luke also discusses Puppet's DSL, resource types, the acyclic graph at the heart of everything, and the guarantees about simulation mode, auditing, and logging.
mpeg-4 mp3March 16, 2011
For most applications autoscale is not fire-and-forget, but it shouldn’t require a fancy PaaS, either. Jesse Proudman of Blue Box shows how to combine the New Relic API with the Fog gem to build your own autoscale system using any cloud infrastructure.…[More]
March 09, 2011
Joe Ruscio, CTO of Librato, demonstrates Silverline, an app-centric monitoring and workload management service. He shows how Silverline improves capacity planning, continuous deployment, RCA, alerting, and provides predictable degradation under load.…[More]
December 17, 2008
Heroku founder Adam Wiggins outlines their vision of next-generation application deployment architectures. He describes the challenges and choices Heroku has made and the upcoming technologies and capabilities that are exciting in their space.…[More]
January 26, 2011
John Woodell, a JRuby developer from Google, describes the 1.4.0 release of Google's AppEngine, which includes JRuby support. John focuses on the how AppEngine differs from other managed cloud hosting environments for Ruby web apps.…[More]