Scalr - open source software that scales web infrastructure

Need to scale? Scalr might be for you.

Scalr is open source software that scales web infrastructure.

 It helps you create and manage super-scalable infrastructure that provisions and configures everything -from cache to database- to handle spikes in demand; then decommissions servers when load decreases to lower cost.

When to use
Project launch
When you're ready to launch, Scalr will provision all the resources from the Cloud for a smooth product launch, even if a million users sign up the first day.

High Growth
Scaling websites is hard and expensive. Using the power of Cloud Computing, Scalr automatically scales your website infrastructure: it scales your database, scales your app servers, and even adds and configures load balancing and caching servers!

Fault-tolerance, backups, uptime, and efficiency
Scalr provides you with a high uptime, fault-tolerant website: Scalr monitors all your servers for crashes, and replaces any that fail. It backups your data at regular intervals, and uses Amazon EBS for database storage. And to make sure you never pay more than you should, Scalr lowers costs by decommissioning servers when load subsides.

Documentation
You can learn all about how Scalr scales your website, or how to use the API, at http://wiki.scalr.net

PoolParty - Cloud management. Simplified

PoolParty is a declarative cloud infrastructure.

It helps you to run a self-healing, auto-scaled and monitored cloud simply, in the clouds, on nearly any hardware, such as EC2, eucalyptus and vmware

PoolParty provides an executable description of a cloud computing infrastructure in a single file:

pool "myapp" do
  cloud "app" do
    using :ec2
    instances 1..1
    security_group do
      authorize :from_port => 22, :to_port => 22
    end
  end
end

Brightbox - Serious rails hosting out of the box

Brightbox provides Xen-based virtualised servers, optimised for hosting Ruby on Rails.

Each Brightbox server comes with RAID10 storage, access to our managed MySQL cluster and the Brightbox Rails stack preinstalled.

Link: http://www.brightbox.co.uk/ 

Orion Henry on Heroku, Doozer and Paxos, Ruby

Orion Henry explains what make Heroku's PaaS tick, in particular the new extensible Cedar stack as well as Doozer, the implementation of the Paxos algorithm created at Heroku.


Link: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/henry-heroku

Bushido - Heroku alternative

http://bushi.do/

We need to proved the git-hub URL of the project and the service will take care of the rest. But seems like its still in beta and it has got a long way ahead..

Amazon Releases aws-sdk, An Official AWS SDK for Ruby Developers

Ruby is getting popular day by day!!!!
http://www.rubyinside.com/amazon-official-aws-sdk-for-ruby-developers-5132.html

Cool thing is it even supports SimpleDB in the form of ROM