Creating a virtual datacenter with Scalr and Amazon Web Services
I have recently been tasked with putting together a new server setup under Amazon Web Services for our company’s web products. We do a bit of everything, hosting both our own PHP-based products and open-source projects like Drupal and Wordpress. We need the hosting to be both reliable and scalable to very high traffic on short notice. We’ve been using AWS since the beginning, but I decided to create a new setup
The new Facebook application ecosystem
A post written for Social Agency’s corporate blog, Socialsama.
One of the interesting parts of developing social applications is that the platforms and technologies we interact with are periodically changing, and we must keep pace both with our platform and with our application marketing strategies.
Facebook recently completed a fundamental redesign of much of its site. Transitions on such a big platform are always painful, and a portion of the Facebook user base was vocal