A typical setup for a (small) web application is to have 2 tiers, one for the database and one for the application/web. Amazon EC2 offers a variety of different instances, starting form small to extra large high CPU instances. A high CPU medium instance costs double of a small instance. This raises the question, is [...]
Since the GAE/J announcement, many Java developers are jumping on the new Java plane and blogging about it. Here are a couple of interesting blog entries with some useful information: Ola Bini series: Java on Google App Engine, JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine, and Dynamic languages on Google App Engine – an overview. [...]
The last couple months, rumors started that Google App Engine’s next supported language will be Java. It was a logical choice, since Google heavily uses and adapt the Java platform already. However, supporting Java is a big commitment and also a pretty complex beast. But the Google App Engine team announced the support of new [...]
I recently switched an Amazon instance to the new Amazon reserved instances price scheme. At first I was confused how to do that. Amazon doesn’t provide an interface for buying a preserved. In fact you have to use the EC2 tools and command line to do. I am comfortable to use the command line, however, [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Amazon released a new pricing scheme for EC2. In short, you now have the option to prepay EC2 instances and then pay a smaller hourly rate. The hourly rates are:
