Fog, the Ruby Cloud Services Library (Interview)

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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