From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Agile Qloudwatch Development update (AWS budgets and more)

by Michiel on January 14, 2010

So I thought I’d give you an update on Qloudwatch. Qloudwatch is going to be the easy-to-use web service that allows you to get insights on your Amazon Web Services cloud usage, group your instances into project and set budgets and warnings for AWS instance costs. We’ve been working really hard the past few weeks [...]

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A problem (and a solution) with AWS: no segregation of instances and no budgets

by Michiel on January 4, 2010

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is great and we use it as our #1 hosting infrastructure at Firmhouse. We still have some “old” traditional virtual servers laying around on some (also great) servers but we are slowly moving away from them to be totally scalable in a cloud environment. There are however, one few problems with [...]

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How to Add Some Security with a Self-Signed SSL Certificate to Your Rails App Served by Nginx

by Michiel on January 2, 2010

At Firmhouse, we are working on a new web service and we’re releasing an in-development demo to everyone who is interested. Normally, in demo apps security is less the case and there is always some disclaimer that says you shouldn’t use real production data like passwords and API keys. In my opinion, this sucks because [...]

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