{"id":333,"date":"2008-06-03T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/333"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:34:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:34:59","slug":"smugmug-and-amazons-ec2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/333","title":{"rendered":"SmugMug and Amazon’s EC2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’s write-up<\/a> of how they use Amazon’s compute cluster service EC2<\/a> is an interesting read if you’re into those types of things. :) Using EC2, they’re able to change the server resources they’re using on the fly to match with the current demand on the system, without having to over-buy extra hardware for peak times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’s write-up of how they use Amazon’s compute cluster service EC2 is an interesting read if you’re into those types of things. :) Using EC2, they’re able to change the server resources they’re using on the fly to match with the current demand on the system, without having to over-buy extra hardware for peak times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-5n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1442","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":0},"title":"Nest Thermostat API\/Protocol","date":"January 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"While Nest Labs hasn\u2019t released a formal (documented & supported) API, I thought I\u2019d do a bit of digging to see how they\u2019re using the network and what might be achievable. A few things are going on, the majority as you\u2019d probably expect. The web interface is using a long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Coding"","img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/image_thumb7.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2340,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2340","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":1},"title":"My 2019 (near) Silent PC Build","date":"October 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Puget Systems assembles really nice custom PCs and especially great quiet PCs. However, when I last priced out a system I wanted to build, it was well outside of my budget (by about $1500USD). So, I built my own. It was an experience that took several months to research and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-06-16_16_02-Task-Manager.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1432,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1432","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":2},"title":"Nest Thermostat Review, Update #7","date":"January 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Update #6, Update #5, Update #4, Update #3, Update #2, Update #1, Install I received a replacement thermostat earlier this week as promised by Nest Labs. I had time this afternoon to do a swap and reinstall. Nest had asked me to swap the thermostats between two floors experimentally to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":603,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/603","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":3},"title":"Off to PDC 2008 in Los Angeles ….","date":"October 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If there\u2019s something interesting that is announced, that hasn\u2019t already been posted to death, or that I\u2019m particularly excited about, I\u2019ll post it here. Did you see that Microsoft announced a new .NET logo? Supposedly it\u2019s a \u201cwave\u201d that demonstrates the key values of .NET: consistency, robustness and great user\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Coding"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1705,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1705","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":4},"title":"WinRT\/Xaml\/AKA Metro DataTemplate selection based on Data Types","date":"August 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have noticed that WinRT does not have automatic resolution of a DataTemplate based on the data type of object added to an ItemsControl. While unfortunate as this behavior is quite handy, it\u2019s not too difficult to replicate the functionality using a DataTemplateSelector. WPF for example, could do something\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Coding"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":344,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/344","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":5},"title":"An amazing (incredible!) Javascript achievement","date":"June 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From 280slides.com... another web-ized PowerPoint wannabe. Definitely an impressive Javascript only application -- broadband definitely recommended: They're using Amazon S3 for PowerPoint conversion (it's funny that they have this feature, but they need it as users may not always have access to a reliable web connection when doing a presentation):\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Coding"","img":{"alt_text":"image","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/image-thumb7.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}