Infrastructure & DevOps

How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse

Don MacAskill2011115 points24 comments details

tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn’t go down because we spread across availability zones a…

Why are you still deploying overnight?

A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git

René Mayrhofer2011109 points35 comments details

Django Setup using Nginx and Gunicorn

Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.

Ask The Pony2011102 points11 comments details

This will create the neccesary directories, install nginx and gunicorn under supervisord control and upload new configuration files made from templates on all the app-servers. Additionally it deploys the newest codebase from your local git branch.

Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

FreeBSD on EC2 status

Colin Percival2011cited by 10 details

For lists of FreeBSD AMI IDs, please consult the appropriate FreeBSD release announcement; you can also launch FreeBSD through the AWS Marketplace .