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RightAWS and SSL Certificates
If you’ve used the RightAWS tools to talk to Amazon Web Services, you’ve probably seen this warning before: warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session No one likes warnings cluttering up their output, and this one indicates … Continue reading
Fetching multiple SimpleDB items in a single request
The only way to retrieve multiple items at a time, along with their attributes, from Amazon SimpleDB is with the Select operation. Typically, you query for some property of the items which you want to retrieve, not by item name: … Continue reading
Speed up RightAWS by Enabling libxml
So I was profiling our app the other day and discovered it was spending a significant amount of time in REXML. “REXML?” I thought. “Who uses REXML in 2009?” For anyone who doesn’t know, REXML is Ruby’s standard pure-Ruby XML … Continue reading
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The State of SimpleDB Clones
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been updating the DataMapper SimpleDB adapter for DataMapper 0.10, an effort which yesterday culminated in the release of version 1.0.0. Testing against Amazon SimpleDB can be an excruciatingly slow process – not only can … Continue reading
Copying Amazon SimpleDB Domains
Just a quickie today. Amazon SimpleDB has no built-in way to copy a domain – for the purposes of backing it up, for instance, or for populating a development domain with data from the production domain. Using the RightAws tools … Continue reading
