I decided to venture out to the scary world of Amazon Web Services. I am far enough along that it makes sense to update this blog about my experience.

I am working with Couchdb and Node.js. I love couch and so far, really enjoy node. I'm deploying this on ubuntu (which is always awesome) on ec2. My current workflow goes like this..

• Reboot in ubuntu
• Make changes to my app, commit and push from git
• ssh into ec2, pull from git
• enjoy

It is as similar to app engine as I could make it. I'm sure going with a provider like heroku or webbynode with iron out the remain hiccups, but I am content with it. Node, couch, cloud, git, I think I have caught up to the cool kids from last year.

• Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
• Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of per sonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments.
• When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and considera tion.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
• Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reason able” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.