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This article is meant to be a quick guide that introduces how to get started with Amazon EC2 commandl-ine tools on a MacBook Pro. Most of this information can be found in EC2 API docs, and this is not meant to be a replacement of the documentation, just trying to show the things needed in a clear and [...]

Webistrano intends to make the deployment of multi-stage and multi-environment scenarios easy. Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, staging, and production with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano [...]

With the help of Hudson’s remote access API, we can create/clone a bunch of jobs easily within seconds, here are some example scripts which can be used to explain how we achieve that.

How can I keep two subversion repositories synchronized on the fly? As a known issues that system administrators may face, there’re serval ways to achieve that: svnsync – As part of the official toolset, it would be a good solution. Anyway I will not use it. SVK – Did not check it [...]

In one of our former post, we give an example on how to query IP whois info by Python, here is an example on how to query whois information for a domain name. #!/usr/bin/python #encoding = utf8

If you use Amazon S3 (or CloudFront) as a web hosting provider, here are some essential tips that you should know about. These tips are mainly for front-end optimizations, including reduce S3 bandwidth, reduce unnecessary requests to S3, check abnormal requests and optimizations on file transfer.

The –status command line option is used to query running searchd instance status, using the connection details from the provided configuration file. It tries to connect to the running instance using the first configured UNIX socket or TCP port. On success, it will query for a number of status and [...]

Where can I find the public IP addresses that used by Amazon AWS? I think you might have such a question if you use Amazon heavily for your infrastructure. Here comes a post from Amazon’s official websites, it answers this question perfectly.

S3cmd is command line tool for uploading, downloading and managing data in Amazon S3. It’s written in Python, and ideal for scripts, automated backups triggered from cron, etc. S3cmd is an open source project and is free for both commercial and private use.

When using Amazon, your payment covers only what you use — that’s system resources and network resources based. There is no minimum fee. Also you can estimate your monthly bill using AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.