Quite literally actually. Amazon has an amazing compute platform that is by far the most advanced in the industry. The idea to bring computing resources to the application in an object orientated, programmatic interface is a real game changer in how people build (and run) production applications. It seems to be that when AWS first started to [...]
If anyone has proven that socially charged gaming is a viral commodity, Zynga has. And at 215+ Million users, Zynga’s infrastructure has to be rock solid to keep up. The company’s culture centers around play and recreation; but after doing some research on their infrastructure, delivering massive amounts of content reliably and with flexible scale is some serious business.
Looking at the different solutions out there for managing cloud server instances on various computing providers (AWS, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid, etc) from one pane of glass. I have resources scattered across these providers and I need a way to manage them without having to work with several different management interfaces. Open source software would be preferred so [...]
