Adam @ Heroku - Latest Comments in Personal Cloud Computing

Re: Personal Cloud Computing

justindz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:20:13 -0000

Have you looked at EUCALYPTUS (I know...) in Ubuntu 9.04 server yet? It's actually supposed to be able to locally mimic the EC2 API. Penny for your thoughts.

Re: Personal Cloud Computing

mihaia — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:04:07 -0000

You need them when you work with software that interacts with the cloud. Like programatically configuring servers, or the kind of auto-scaling and replication that Heroku does.

Re: Personal Cloud Computing

Andy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:51:37 -0000

Why do you need all these virtual machines for development? Why not just start all your servers on the same computer without VMs? It sounds like your working around a software installation problem.

Where I work we keep a single production machine image that basically never changes. All code is statically linked into a self-contained executable and deployed to production machines. And then you can just run all your servers on a single machine -- no VMs necessary.

Re: Personal Cloud Computing

mihaia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:10:55 -0000

It depends on how much resources do you need, but on my 4GB MacBook I use VMWare Fusion with a few 384MB Ubuntu Server. It's not EC2 but it's pretty close, it's fast, free and can delete/clone easily.