Standup April 21st – AWS is down, Heroku is out

Help

"What's the best admin gem out there?"

• I've used typus and it's great, https://github.com/fesplugas/typus
• I know Erik Michaels-Ober has a good admin gem, https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin
• Active scaffold isn't admin specific but that could work

Interesting

"Amazon Web Services is down"

This is one of the longest outages we've seen of Amazon and thus Heroku. So many Ruby applications rely on Heroku that the community is certainly affected. Updates on the damage are on Heroku and Amazon. You can see how far reaching problems on EC2 are on ec2disabled.com

"Obama is in town!"

There have been rumors he is visiting a few notable software companies in the area, hopefully he'll stop by. Watch out for blocked streets for the motorcade.

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