[erlang-questions] Erlang and the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud

[Roberto Saccon]

On 10/13/07, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Roberto Saccon wrote:
>
> > Great article !
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Have you found a way around the DHCP initialization
> > issue ("operating system high resolution timer"  error) when starting
> > the Erlang VM at OS startup ?
>
> I believe it only happens on Ubuntu Feisty. I think someone told me
> this. We haven't found a workaround, though.
>
> What OS do you run?
>

I see. They were all Debian or Debian based ...

> > But for regular application updates the approach
> > as described by Joel is better suited, because it takes just too long
> > to build an OS image, even automated.
>
> I have yet to write the more interesting article :-). It will begin
> like this...
>
> "Bowing to the OTP application packaging procedure, I wanted to have
> a way of upgrading applications with a "push of a button". More
> precisely, I wanted to be able to type make:all() to rebuild my
> application and then type sync:all() to push updated modules to all
> nodes in my cluster."
>
> Yes, that also involves Amazon and EC2 but is applicable to any other
> scenario.
>
>         Joel
>
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>


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