February 2012
1 post
MQSH - An SSH alternative with MQTT
Skip to the code: https://github.com/franklovecchio/mqsh
I got fed up with the Java implementations of SSH after this StackOverflow ticket went (mostly) unanswered; since I had been playing around with the idea of another (better) way to invoke commands remotely, I settled on using MQtt as the middle-man. In an ideal world, I wouldn’t need to execute direct commands to EC2 instances...
December 2011
1 post
Twilio Pusher with Websockets & ZeroMQ
Recently, while building out a web application for RingDNA, we ran into a couple issues regarding websockets:
1) Amazon EC2 load-balancers do not support websocket scaling (yet). I knew this, but had never implemented a solution.
2) Twilio applications point to webservice URLs, so developing locally can be tedious if you are building UI from call parameters that get pushed via websockets (and...
November 2011
2 posts
MQDB - Distributing Databases with MQtt
Lately (as in the past 6 months), I’ve had a lot of “oddball” ideas regarding pubsub protocols and what can be done with them. Aside from this blog, I’m working on a Cassandra pubsub implementation using MQtt and websockets, as well as a basic Twilio Client demo that uses pubsub via VOIP/SMS (in case you were wondering, the platform we just introduced last week - m2m.io -...
Inspiring The Internet Of Things: A Comic Book →
cchiappone:
The Internet of Things is one of our favorite trends at RWW. When it finally becomes ubiquitous, we’ll be that hipster blog that liked IoT before it was cool. To help usher in the future, the Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects - as well as the ethical issues -...
September 2011
2 posts
Sabi 2.0
While most of the digital backstory regarding Sabi was exposed in a wonderful article written by the guys, I thought it was about time to elaborate on the technical aspects of what powers the ordering system, call queue, API, and datastore (but probably not in that order).
Amazon EC2 Hosting
When it comes to domain names, Sabi did what everybody else does — use GoDaddy. I wanted to put up...
Building an OpenVBX Twilio AMI on EC2
A while back, I built an OpenVBX AMI for Isidorey: http://blog.isidorey.com/2011/06/twilio-openvbx-ami-update.html. I’m just now getting to posting the script that sets up up OpenVBX and its dependencies. I’d also like to add in some options to install plugins off-the-bat, as well as a Redis backend instead of MySQL :)
I’m assuming a fresh installation here, and that further...
August 2011
1 post
APIGEE API Documentation Generator
UPDATE: I broke this because I was including css/js from another box that died (so was the Isidorey link) :) Luckily, I have everything in S3 — I just need to take the time and put the demo back together, but at least the code is available.
Let’s talk APIGEE for a Colorado-second; it’s an awesome API tool I’ve come to love for numerous reasons — the most obvious...