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Update -- we just announced our $15mm series A from Google Ventures and Khosla: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/01/rumble-to-build-and-publish... http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/01/fo…

Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores) Engineers, artists, designers, more - http://www.rumblegames.com/careers/ Rumble was founded in the summer of 2011 by an all-star team of game…

Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) - Engineers and more EA2D is hiring! We're a new, autonomous studio within EA building cross-platform social games for gamers. We've just launched …

It does what I need for now, but I certainly wouldn't turn down a pull request! I'm happy to answer questions or help if someone wants to contribute.

I wrote a Python lib for this: https://github.com/EA2D/pingdom-python It just supports checks for now, but the framework is there for other resources to be quickly added.

Basically, you just need to pass a Chef bootstrap script in through the instance's user-data. Knife, a Chef management and interaction tool, provides several bootstrap scripts you …

Designing for fault tolerance and scaling out instead of individual node durability and scaling up is, in most cases, a sounder approach. Since the vast majority of applications ma…

Nope, CloudFormation is for infrastructure provisioning. Configuration management is still valuable post-boot. I've been using CloudFormation in conjunction with Chef - they're com…

Yup, just one building over

EA2D - Redwood Shores, CA (SF Bay Area) http://www.ea2d.com We're a small, autonomous studio within EA building social games for gamers. Our first monetized title, Dragon Age Legen…

Note that it's not 1000 servers every week, it's up to 1000 servers in a given week. This was likely done to support the launch of a new game, and may factor in server turnover (th…

I definitely wouldn't consider EA2D a startup, but fortunately the OP left it open ("startup/company"). That being said, I do think we (EA2D) have a lot in common with later-stage …

This is precisely the approach they take. Section 3.4 ("The Model") begins, "The heart of the model is to treat incoming events as a Poisson process..."

Business: Social games for gamers ( http://www.ea2d.com ) Languages: Java backend, AS3 frontend, Python + Ruby misc Note that we're very new (and hiring!), so much of this is still…

Java/Flash/Automation Engineers (and more) - Redwood City (SF Bay Area), CA, USA EA2D ( http://ea2d.com ) We're a new division of EA focused on bringing big-name titles to the brow…

Redwood Shores, CA / San Francisco, CA (relocation available) EA2D is a new studio of EA created to bring big-title games to the web. Our first game is still months from launch, so…

Much of the problem is a result of the publishing model - deadlines are inherently more stressful when they're inflexible and you're expected to deliver a 100% finalized product. M…

I wish I had the same foresight you did - my one regret about signing up for HN is not using my real name as my username. It would be great if pg added the ability to change one's …

Automating AMI creation across all four Amazon regions so it can be part of continuous integration. Goal is to integrate continuous deployment with EC2 auto scaling groups.

Good start - I wasn't aware of the Litmus environment. The Animoto example is great, I love telling that story to people just starting to look into cloud computing. To add to the l…

Great, drop a line to greg@bizo.com - he can get you started and answer any questions you have

(Disclaimer: I work for Bizo) Bizo allows you to target on specific business demographics (Company Size, Job Function, etc.), and to do so cheaply (starts at $5/day). One advantage…