Jordan Fowler gives a presentation on Amazon’s S3 service. He also covers the AWS::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina Jr.
Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon’s Simple Que Service web service to build backdoors into systems.
Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there.
Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.
Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn’t deploy your site without. He’ll also go over some sample implementations for a typical Rails app, including a demo of how to serve your public assets from Amazon’s new CloudFront View More