If you’re headhunting a cloud computing expert, specifically someone who knows Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EC2, you’ll want to have a battery of questions to ask them to assess their knowledge. As with any technical interview focus on concepts and the big picture. As the 37Signals folks like to say “hire for attitude, train for skill”. Absolutely!…
In a recent buzzfeed piece, NYPD goes to the mat with Palantir over their data. It seems the NYPD has recently gotten cold feet. As they explored options, they found an alternative that might save them a boatload of money. They considered switching to an IBM alternative called Cobalt. And I mean this is Silicon Valley, what…
We already know that the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a widely used cloud computing service that offers scalable and flexible virtual server resources. But do you know how to deploy on Amazon EC2 with Vagrant? While deploying on Amazon EC2 traditionally, it requires manual configuration and setup. You can streamline this process by…