Trexy in the Clouds

Our servers are starting to groan under the load and it's time for us to make another big infrastructure decision ...

Trexy is off to the big computing cloud in the sky - Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).

Who needs a cloud with silver lining? I just need one with lots of RAM that can scale up to handle lots of incoming trails and widget requests! ;-)

Fortunately various functional parts of Trexy can be divided across Amazon's web services: S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB. Taken together I think they will do the trick!

No doubt Google have something planned too ... so one day we may move again to another Cloud.

But hopefully gone forever are the days of server meltdown and cluster chaos. I'll be working hard to make sure the transition is as smooth as possible - stay tuned.

Ding, Dong, the FAB gets a new bell!

That's right we've got a brand new bell. Not only is it new but
it's also bigger! Thanks to Rob, Russell and Matt, the FAB event
has a bell again. Having lost it last month, Nigel and I were really
happy to receive the present brought all the way back from their
recent ski holiday in France.




The bell was put to use straightaway for our speed networking
activity. In pairs, each person had one minute to share any business opportunities with the other person before the bell rang to move to a new person.

We hope everyone enjoyed the speed networking, as well as the fortune cookies and the walk through Chinatown under the canopy of red lanterns.

Congratulations to this month's lucky prize winners.

We'd like to thank Eleonora Nelson-Wiggins from BondMarvel Consulting and Roland Turner for sponsoring the February event.

Details for the next event in March can be found on the Flag and Bell website.