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Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2. It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI's for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, others), and a generic AMI to build on top of.

This article will show how Eventseer utilizes an often overlooked way of improving the responsiveness of a web application: Pre-generating and serving static files instead of dynamic pages.

PageTest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.

build a web-spidering solution using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Lucene. The application will run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Beta (Amazon EC2™), will use Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for job management, and will store any persistent data (in addition to backups) on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).