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The conference season is starting again for me and I wanted to note where I will be/speak during the next couple of weeks.

First, there is Ruby Fools Copenhagen (April 1st and 2nd) where I will speak in the Ruby Performance track about Rails on AWS and how to leverage EC2, S3, and SQS in your application. The lineup at Ruby Fools looks really good with speakers like Glenn Vanderburg, Michael Koziarski, Evan Phoenix, Dr. Nic Williams, Dave Thomas, and Matz himself. Unfortunately I will not have too much time in Copenhagen as I have to leave early for Scotland on Rails in Edinburgh.

I'm really looking forward to be in Edinburgh again. After living, studying, and working there it feels like a second home. At Scotland on Rails (April 4th and 5th) I will talk about Rails Patterns: typical problems and scenarios in Rails applications like asynchronous operations (image processing, calculations, ..), authentication or deployment and common solutions and best practices.

In Mai I will be at Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin and hopefully talk about Ruby on Rails Security, but this talk has not been confirmed yet. Further, there is a chance that I will be speaking a the iX Cebit Forum 2008 about our internal Software Development Process and Agile Development.

I'm just back from today's Web 2.0 Expo sessions and I'm not sure I will attend tomorrow. Many have written about this before, but the creative, social atmosphere is missing due to the conference labyrinth halls. Boy, I'm happy I haven't spend > 1.000 Euros on this. No real food, a lot of product presentations, not enough room for socializing and to many suits for my taste.

Still, I had some nice conversations and met some interesting people.

I did again a session on scaling with Amazon EC2 and S3, the slides can be found here.

This time a also talked a bit about how we use S3 and EC2 to drive our Webmail Portal product, PeritorMail at Peritor.

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Also nice the AWS announcement of S3 being available in EU data centers. Now I'm only waiting for EC2 in the EU...

Finally:

Basically, we commit to 99.9% uptime, measured on a monthly basis. If an S3 call fails (by returning a ServiceUnavailable or InternalError result) this counts against the uptime. If the resulting uptime is less than 99%, you can apply for a service credit of 25% of your total S3 charges for the month. If the uptime is 99% but less than 99.9%, you can apply for a service credit of 10% of your S3 charges.

Very nice to see this shortly after the AWS presentation by Jeff Barr at the Berlin Ruby User Group. But I guess that for many people in big corporate settings this is not enough. But still, it's a start. And it makes selling AWS S3 as part of our solutions easier.

I'n now waiting for a EC2 SLA.

Get the details here.

Rails Konferenz 2007 is over and like last year it was a lot of fun, meeting other developers and learning some new stuff.

My talk on scaling Rails applications with Amazon S3 and EC2 went well and I had some interesting discussions afterwards. The talk was based on my Linuxtag talk but had a lot more info on Switiply and load-balancing.

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The slides are available here as a PDF, a video will soon be available as I’m told.

Skalieren von Rails Anwendungen mit Amazon S3 und EC2 (PDF)

I gave a presentation (in German) on how to scale web applications using Amazon S3 and EC2 at the Linuxtag 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

The talk was a broad introduction to S3 and EC2 and had some examples and scenarios using a Ruby on Rails application.

The slides are available as PDF here and there is also a mp3 recording thanks to http://www.digitalwarenmanufaktur.de/blog/.

I will present a more Rails centric variant of this talk at the upcoming Rails Konferenz in Frankfurt, Germany. Further I will be talking about S3/EC2 and Rails at the RailsConfEurope 2007 here in Berlin, Germany.

Skalieren einer Web Anwendung mit Amazon S3 und EC2 (PDF)

Skalieren einer Web Anwendung mit Amazon S3 und EC2 (MP3)