Engine Yard is Out of the Hardware Business

On November 22, 2010 By Tyler

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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Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic

On June 18, 2010 By Tyler

Today I posted the first screencast in Engine Yard’s AppCloud Screencast series on how to Setup Performance Monitoring with New Relic RPM on AppCloud.

It was a lot of fun putting this together as it brought together my skills in audio/video that I’ve not used in quite a while and I still enjoy.  I’m quite [...]

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