Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby

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Concrete claims and code not buzzwords the talk shows Ruby using RightScale gems to call Amazon SQS EC2 S3 and SimpleDB logs that EC2 boots in ~2 minutes SQS message cap drops from 256KB→8KB so messages carry IDs not payloads explains approximate Q size visibility timeouts and duplicate delivery risk builds a Cato based ec2 pool manager that auto scales by queue depth with min hour billing logic and runs a live demo using an emulated EC2/SQS locally chunky bacon app that actually starts and stops instances and processes messages

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:20I Love Lucy
3. 4:17Does it Scale
4. 5:18RightScale
5. 6:39RightScale Gems
6. 7:54SQS Queue
7. 10:44EC2 RightScale Gems
8. 11:14EC2 Instances
9. 12:55Pool Manager
10. 15:19Minimum Time
11. 17:02Demo
12. 19:47Foxes
13. 22:19Chunky Bacon
14. 26:11Questions
15. 32:09EC2 Static IP Addresses
16. 35:06Integrations
17. 37:53Resources

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