Archive for the “Web Technology” category
Amazon’s EBS (Elastic Block Store)
by Justin Leider on August 21, 2008
I wrote just yesterday about running your own hardware vs. using EC2 and RightScale and one of the major issues I found with EC2 was the lack of a persistent storage medium. Well, I knew the folks over at Amazon (…)
Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale
by Justin Leider on August 20, 2008
A couple weeks ago I began working with EC2 and RightScale in preparation of our big IT infrastructure change over. Ill start by giving a brief overview of our hardware infrastructure. Currently we’re running the CitySquares’ website on our own (…)
Digging into HAProxy
by Justin Leider on August 13, 2008
Well its been a few weeks since my last posting here and there is certainly a good reason for that. Every once in a while I just need to completely unplug from technology. So it only made sense for me (…)
Part 2: An Architecture Overview — Apache, MySQL, Memcached, SQLite
by Justin Leider on July 24, 2008
In my last post I mentioned the numerous technologies which were on tap for the upcoming version of CitySquares. This installment will continue to define an overview of the underlying architecture and begin to dig a little deeper into the (…)
Part 1: A Technology Overview
by Justin Leider on July 21, 2008
This will be the first post in a multi-part series, each of the following installations will detail the technologies and implementations of the upcoming CitySquares revision. I hope to cover the entire page generation process, starting with the user’s first (…)