Tag: AWS
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node.js, WordPress and Google App Engine
node.js Google App Engine is very cool. It hides all the complexity of creating a highly available, load-balanced and scalable application. It is a very natural fit for node.js applications. You can quickly and easily achieve “Google Scale”. This is explained in this great video, https://youtu.be/yiOtZDICUfI There is a synergy between node.js and Google App…
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[Fixed] I do not receive Turkish e-Visa confirmation emails
I lost several hours and a lot of patience trying to get a Turkish e-Visa. The problem was that none of my email addresses could receive the confirmation email. Trip Advisor has many others with the same problem. I solved this problem by using my work email. Other people have created a Gmail account for…
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How to clone a Bitnami server in the AWS console
I use the excellent Bitnami WordPress AMI. I wanted to clone it so I made a snapshot and then created an image from the snapshot. The newly created AMI launched but only passed 1/2 health checks. The problem was that when creating the AMI I left the AKI (Amazon Kernal Image) on “default”. You must…
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Installing Newrelic server monitoring
In a previous post I explained how to install Newrelic server application monitoring for WordPress. I now realise that this is probably putting the cart before the horse in that one should install Newrelic Server monitoring first. This is very easy. The instructions are here and at the bottom of the page it gives advice on…
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Managing MySQL on Bitnami AWS servers
There are two clients that can be used to manage the MySQL server on Bitnami AWS servers. phpMyAdmin This is a php application web application that has been pre-installed by Bitnami MySQL Workbench. A rich client that runs on your desktop and connects over a socket The approach is both cases is similar you need…
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AWS tools for Windows PowerShell
One of the most popular posts on my blog is my comparison of Windows PowerShell with Unix utilities. Readers may be interested to learn that AWS now has PowerShell tools.
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Amazon announce data warehouse back end solution
Today Amazon announced Redshift a data warehouse service based on PostgreSQL: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. With…
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Amazon CloudSearch for your company’s data
The remorseless march of Amazon continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale search applications. Amazon CloudSearch enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service. Customers don’t…
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Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications – All Things Distributed
I am interested in Amazon’s new NoSQL database DynamoDB. We develop Android applications and a core requirement is scalable session management. This seems to be a primary use of DynamoDB. Dynamo was born out of our need for a highly reliable, ultra-scalable key/value database. This non-relational, or NoSQL, database was targeted at use cases that…
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R53 Fox is great for managing Amazon Route53
Amazon Route 53 is a great way to manage the DNS entries of your cloud services. A key feature is its ability to map your domain apex such as “keyapt.com” to an elastic load balancer instance. To actually create the mapping you use the Elastic Load Balancer CLI (command line interface). The command elb-associate-route53-hosted-zone and…
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