Using Cloud Files w/ CDN for Clipish Library

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:19:40 +0000

Over the last two days we’ve moved our Clipish Library from serving the files locally on our web server to Rackspace’s Cloud Files service. It is similar to Amazon S3, however since we were already using Rackspace Cloud Servers, we thought it would be easier to just keep it all under the same roof. The actual changes in code for using Cloud Files only took about 2 hours, but I had to write a script to loop through our entire library and populate Cloud Files with our current library. What is great is in the future when we add items, our code will automatically add files to Cloud Files via their API. Here is our network graph after switching (Item #3):

The Cloud to Bare Metal

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:02:22 +0000

A Little Background

It was the summer of 2008 when I attended the LT Pact conference that I first drank the “Cloud Kool-Aid.” As you can see from my notes, I was pretty excited about this whole concept. Excited enough, one client of mine signed up for Layered Tech’s grid layer (which is what they were demoing at the conference).

One interesting thing I heard at the LT Pact conference was one of their keynotes was as IT Researcher for Gartner. He outlined what phases the current industry would go through with “cloud computing”:

Cloud on Justin Carmony

Using Cloud Files w/ CDN for Clipish Library

The Cloud to Bare Metal

A Little Background