Infrastructure as a Service : Just Compute and Go!

Context: Some Investment Bank, Some large project, Some time ago…
Me: Wait up Scott (Scott is our SysAdmin. Disclosure: We still are drinking buddies!)
Scott: What now Gibbon! Whatever you’re selling, I ain’t buying…
Me: Stop your whinging you miserable jobsworth. I need 10 Linux servers tomorrow for about 5 hours of performance testing.
Scott: LOL [...]

Ruby is the R in Rails

I would love to have attended RailsConf 2008 but alas you can only do so much in a day. Although this was a Rails conference, it seems that this year there was less talk about Rails and more about Ruby. This is hardly surprising really given that Rails is just a web framework. [...]