The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Interview)

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Wynn sat down with Wesley Beary from Engine Yard to talk about the Fog project and the Cloud, live from Red Dirt Ruby Conf.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Wesley Beary aka @geemus
  • The Fog project is the Ruby cloud services library
  • By coincidence this interview was recorded the day the cloud went down
  • Fog supports almost twenty providers for Storage, DNS, Compute, CDN
  • Dr. Nic made us laugh on Episode 0.5.0
  • Engine Yard pays Wesley to hack on Fog.
  • AppCloud is a Ruby Platform as a Service from Engine Yard.
  • You have to commit to the project to earn a slick Fog tee
  • Excon grew out of Fog’s need for EXtended http(s) CONnections
  • Wesley is dubious of ‘compliant APIs’
  • OpenStack is backed by Rackspace and Nasa
  • Wesley likes to play with Riak
  • Red Dirt Ruby Conference videos will be released on May 22

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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