What happens when the AWS cloud has a very, very bad day?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have been integral to the successes of nearly all recent project launches at PBS. All of our core applications are deployed out on AWS EC2 servers and RDS database instances. While we have experienced an occasional component failure, these have been infrequent. When failures have occurred, we have typically been able to leverage the agility...
Drew Engelson New Django-based PBS.org site and APIs
Today is a big day. Just after midnight we pulled the trigger and launched the new re-envisioned PBS.org website. This is a huge step for PBS on a number of fronts; mostly having to do bringing PBS to the forefront of new media.
Drew Engelson What's the verdict?
I was at Micro Center today and came across this neat looking device called The NPR Radio by Livio. My first reaction was, "Wow! This is so cool. You can listen to NPR anytime, anywhere! Why aren't we selling The PBS Television yet?" or something along those lines.
But upon thinking about this...
Drew Engelson New site launched on PBS.org.
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Last month, I presented on how PBS utilizes RightScale to manage our servers in the Amazon Cloud. This is my deck from RightScale MeetUp... The PBS development team is making the leap from Subversion to Git. So far, it has been relatively painless... We've imported a few SVN
repositories, maintained the full history, and development continues.
But we're still using Git as though it were Subversion. To make the most of Git will involve rethinking our development and
release practices. So far, Vincent Driessen's A successful Git
branching model seems quite logical and is the likely candidate for
adoption. Let's see where... |
