Category Archives: Development

Amazon Web Services in Greece, meet up #2

Almost 5 months after the first AWS meetup in Greece, I would like to announce the second one. This time we will also have Simone Brunozzi with us, who is an Amazon Web Services Evangelist. A lot to be discussed … Continue reading

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Amazon ec2 Europe

Amazon just updated their feature guide to include information related to the launch of European ec2 regions. This is something highly anticipated by many companies in Europe. We will be deploying both Magnet commerce and Zuni greek social network on … Continue reading

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Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS

Last week I did a presentation on Amazon Web Services meet up in Greece. During the presentation I showed how you can start an AMI of fedora 8 base, install apache, php and mySQL and make them all store their … Continue reading

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Microsoft launches Azure, a cloud computing platform

Cloud computing is one of the hottest industries right now. There are several companies already offering services like Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Slicehost, Gogrid and Aptana. Today Microsoft launched Azure, a cloud for applications designed for Microsoft Products. Azure is available … Continue reading

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Great news for EC2!

Today is a big day for EC2. Many great things happened: * Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone. * There’s now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2. * Microsoft Windows is now available … Continue reading

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Amazon web services meet up

During the last open coffee event in Athens, Jason really inspired us with his speech. His most valuable advice for us was to team up and create new start ups. He mentioned a few tools that can be used to … Continue reading

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Amazon Elastic Block Store launches

Amazon has just launched EBS (Elastic Block Store) which allows anyone to attach persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage to an EC2 instance. For me basically this is the end of hosting to traditional companies and from now on all our … Continue reading

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Dataportability.org and the future of web

The last few years, people got “socialized” over the web. Someone might say that the web looks exactly like real life. You have an identity, a house full of photographs/videos/messages/books and you can share your data with your friends or … Continue reading

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Google codesearch launched

Google launched code search today. Seems to be a very nice feature targeted to developers. Google claims that the source code is collected through publicly available sources. Try the advanced search form to get language specific results. More info can … Continue reading

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