sidbatra

I'll love to get everyone's feedback on this. It addresses a lot of problems I've faced while developing iOS apps over the last 3 years. Thanks!

List of features and uses from github:

Features

Built on Amazon’s reliable and scalable queue service, Connections to SQS are opened lazily negating any initial load time, Multiple queues can be used simultaneously, Doesn’t poll the database, Rails ActiveRecord objects maintain state through the queue, Built-in retry mechanism.

Uses

FIFO is extracted from the Mine (http://getmine.com) codebase. Here are some of the things we use it for:

Sending emails, Processing images, Indexing, Sharing to social networks, Cache management, Launching cron jobs, Communication between disjoint parts of a complex application (cron, web, processing servers)

Everyone has an interesting story to tell and our world ought to celebrate normal people more than it does. Storylane is a brilliant combination of the two. Love it

The Lightspeed program is phenomenal.

This is really helpful for a lean startup. Helps pull some load away from servers and you get all the benefits of a CDN and caching.

It makes sense if they need to do maintenance but there has to be some code of conduct / guidelines for a VPS provider.

Either way, I stopped using Godaddy a while back - slicehost is amazing for developers and hackers.

Perhaps, we should wait for Yelp to give their side of the story before hanging them a-priori. Perhaps a runaway sales account exec couldn't meet his/her targets and got cheeky.