Hudson CI

The Hudson Continuous Integration server, built on Java, has been adopted by Dr. Nic. He has pioneered the engineyard-hudson project that helps grease the wheels and get a Hudson server running on Engine Yard’s AppCloud in just minutes.

Dr. Nic recorded the screencast footage and then I assisted by providing [...]

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Fun With Sledgehammers

While I was recently in San Francisco we had a company meeting and celebrated a huge milestone. We had recently completed an almost year-long migration from our original legacy hardware to our new cloud based virtual machine offerings.

And so Tom Mornini and Ed Muller were able to take a swing [...]

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Amazon Out of Capacity

On October 29, 2010 By Tyler

Quickcasts

To answer an answer quickly, and in screencast form, I created the Amazon Out of Capacity Quickcast and published it.

The most popular size EY AppCloud offers is the High CPU Medium. Sometime this size will not be available at the time a user would like to boot an instance. So [...]

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Change an Instance Size

On October 27, 2010 By Tyler

Knowing How To Upgrade

This screencast shows you how to upgrade your Engine Yard AppCloud instance from it’s current size to the next size you need. Whether that’s small to medium or more.

Now if you just knew when to upgrade. I mean other than after hours…

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Rails Rumble Server Screencasts

On October 15, 2010 By Tyler

Server Setup

By the end of this screencast you’ll have a server running on linode with MySQL, REE, Passenger and Nginx ready to receive your application.

I will provide code snippets here in the blog article so you can copy and paste them into your terminal.

Boot Linode Instance

The steps in the screencast [...]

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