cjbottaro

set -e

# Stop the docker daemon
/etc/init.d/docker stop

# Configure ECS Agent
# http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-agent-config.html
# http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/automated_image_cleanup.html
cat > /etc/ecs/ecs.config << "EOF"
ECS_ENGINE_TASK_CLEANUP_WAIT_DURATION=1h

antirez

Redis 4.2 roadmap

1. Redis Cluster

• Speed up key -> hashslot association. Now makes RBB loading 4x slower when there are many small keys.
• Better multi data center story
• redis-trib C coded and moved into redis-cli
• Backup / Restore of Cluster
• Non blocking MIGRATE (also consider not using 2X memory)
• Faster resharding
• Bug fixing and stress testing to bring it to next level of maturity

tcbyrd

AWS CLI command to update CNAME

When you have a set of application servers running in EC2 in an active/passive configuration, the easiest way to failover is to simply update the DNS to point to the second server as soon as it's available to serve requests. If you are using Route 53 to manage your DNS configuration, with the AWS CLI you can make this change in a single command.

Initial Setup

• Install the AWS CLI
• Login with an account that has an IAM Policy that gives it access to the Route53 Service
• Get the HostedZoneID for the domain you want to update from the AWS console here: https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/home#hosted-zones:

The CLI expects the change to be submitted via a JSON-formatted configuration file. I've inclu

jrochkind

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.