Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Changelog Interviews #60)

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

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