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Rails and the Cloud were made for each other. Both allow a rapid response to changing business requirements within their own domain, application development and IT infrastructure respectively. Rails, especially when deployment driven from something like Capistrano, allows a developer to easily respond to scaling requirements by expanding horizontally, adding new database and application servers, more often than not without any code changes (although this isn’t always true, even when a developer thinks it is). Most cloud services make provisioning those additional resources  as easy as a click or two (or an API call or two)

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op.rjf Development, Rails Cloud Computing, Development, Rails

Cloud Computing is all the rage today, leading some to dismiss it as just the next in a long line of fads which fade as quickly as they appear. But behind the buzzwords surrounding Cloud Computing there are sound best practices hard learned from years of struggling with day to day IT challenges. This post will outline those best practices, the technologies that enable and support them, and how they result in benefits immediately tangible to many types of businesses.

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op.rjf Enterprise Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Scalability, Virtualization