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2009

4store Amazon Machine Image. Instructions for firing up an EC2 AMI running the recently released 4store high performance triple store and loading in 1.14 billion statements collected by crawling the semantic web.

# 1st November 2009, 12:12 pm / 4store, ami, ec2, semanticweb, semweb, triplestore

Memcached 1.4.0 released. The big new feature is the (optional) binary protocol, which enables other features such as CAS-everywhere and efficient client-side replication. Maintainer Dustin Sallings has also released some useful sounding EC2 instances which automatically assign nearly all of their RAM to memcached on launch and shouldn’t need any further configuration.

# 17th July 2009, 10:26 pm / ami, binary, caching, cas, dustin-sallings, ec2, memcached, performance, scaling

EC2: Creating an Image. Here’s the easier way of creating your own AMI: start with a running instance in EC2, then customise it to fit your purposes and create a new bundle (and then AMI) using the ec2-bundle-vol command.

# 19th May 2009, 7:50 pm / amazon, ami, cloud-computing, ec2

HOWTO Building a self-bundling Debian AMI. Not as terrifying as you would have thought. Also contains some neat hints as to how some of the more magical parts of EC2 work (like the way your SSH public key automatically ends up in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys).

# 19th May 2009, 7:49 pm / amazon, ami, cloud-computing, debian, ec2