Cloud tools

Cloud Tools for fun and Proﬁt! John McCaffrey RailsPerformance.com @J_McCaffrey

Agenda• Terminology• Deployment and hosting• Monitoring• Collaboration and Communication• Q&A

Why I love this stuff• Allows me to be fast• Show value, get feedback• Build a better product• Build conﬁdence, get more work

Terminology• Hosting: how/where the application lives• Deploy: update the application• Production: the ofﬁcial site• Staging: test/qa site that mimics prod.• VM: Virtual Machine• Git: Version control (GitHub.com)

Deployment• Getting that sucker out there!

Options• Self hosted• Amazon Web Services• EngineYard.com or RightScale.com• Heroku.com• https://appharbor.com

Self-Hosted Pro Con • Responsible for everything!• Control over everything! • High initial cost, unused• No surprises resources• Bare Metal (no additional • Upgrades, maintenance layers) • Security

Amazon Pro Con• Still a lot of control • Requires deep technical know-how to setup• Easy to scale up more instances • Responsible for various software updates• Pay as you go• No need to maintain • Responsible for some security components hardware• Free trial • Outages and surprises!

EngineYard.com Pro Con• Simpliﬁed and tailored to the most common needs• Easy to scale up more • Still requires some technical know-how to get started instances, Pay as you go• Full control over the OS • Responsible for various software updates• No need to maintain • Outages and surprises! hardware• Free trial

Heroku.com Pro Con• One line deployment• Free instance can go far • No control over underlying software, ports, etc• Easy to scale up more instances • Additional layers of routing• Pay as you go • Outages and surprises!• No need to maintain hardware or software

Heroku.com• Ruby/Rails, Java, Scala, Python• Free ‘dyno’ (aka single process)• Simple deployment• Lots of plugins and addons• Easy to experiment with

Heroku• Let’s deploy something!

Pusher demo• git clone github.com/tarnfeld/PusherChat-Rails.git• heroku create• heroku addons:add pusher:sandbox• git push heroku master

Redmine• Project management• Wiki/Documents• Issue tracker• Forums• Calendar• http://gb-redmine.heroku.com/

FatFree CRM• Rails based CRM• http://mccaffrey-crm.heroku.com/

Monitoring• Sever monitoring• Page monitoring• Response/uptime monitoring

Server monitoring• Munin• Nagios• New Relic

Page monitoring• Yslow/page speed• webpagetest.org• StillAlive.com• Google analytics, KISSmetrics, gaug.es

Uptime• StillAlive.com• newRelic• pingdom.com• apica.com

Let’s ﬁre a load Test!• ab -n 100 -c 20 http://yoursite.com

Collaboration• Email• Instant message/chat• Screencast (jing, screenr, etc)• Group Chat (campﬁre, hipchat)• Audio/video chat (google, skype)• Screenshare (teamviewer, skype, join.me)• Code: Github.com, assembla.com, bitbucket.org

Google apps• Sites• Docs• Email• Add ons

Q&A• John@RailsPerformance.com• www.RailsPerformance.com• @J_McCaffrey

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by John McCaffrey on Nov 12, 2011

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