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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#1

Post by werner » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 8:36 PM UTC

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3
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Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#2

Post by shoota » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:23 PM UTC

Except for the servers at Disqus which are running the comment system. And the servers serving up the static HTML pages.

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#3

Post by iqster » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:26 PM UTC

shoota wrote: post #2

Except for the servers at Disqus which are running the comment system. And the servers serving up the static HTML pages.

Aha! That's how he did it. I couldn't figure out how commenting worked. He does have a comment count link at the top of the page. Is that fragment from Disqus also?

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#4

Post by metafour » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

Coming from the CTO of Amazon...

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#5

Post by shoota » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

iqster wrote: post #3

shoota wrote: post #2

Except for the servers at Disqus which are running the comment system. And the servers serving up the static HTML pages.

Aha! That's how he did it. I couldn't figure out how commenting worked. He does have a comment count link at the top of the page. Is that fragment from Disqus also?

A simple inspection of the source reveals that it is also an embeded javascript file from Disqus.

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

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Post by corin_ » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:34 PM UTC

This is a pretty over-used subject for blog submissions here on HN, see previous ones at https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

metafour wrote: post #4

Coming from the CTO of Amazon...

It is always a pleasure to read from Werner (one of the few blogs I subscribe to). It a shame that not as many of his posts get to front page on HN.

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

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Post by Kudos » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 10:06 PM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #6

This is a pretty over-used subject for blog submissions here on HN, see previous ones at https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...

To be fair, the submitter/author runs AWS, which makes this a little less typical to me.

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

#9

Post by jwwest » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 10:15 PM UTC

I remember running this type of setup back in 2003 with text files and Blosxom. What's old is new again?

Re: No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

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Post by mhd » Wed, Aug 17, 2011, 10:30 PM UTC

jwwest wrote: post #9

I remember running this type of setup back in 2003 with text files and Blosxom. What's old is new again?

This is more about the S3 part than the jekyll one.

But yes, I guess there is some movement back in time. I'd say the two main reasons are a return to more minimal blogging (i.e. something like tumblr as opposed to blogrolls, widgets, plugins etc.), and the fact that you can do some dynamic stuff in the client now via JavaScript (e.g. comments with Disqus).