yopa is (almost) Your Own Personal AWS

If you're using AWS SQS and SNS for more than trivial things, you've probably wished that you could run your queues and topics locally, and be able to peek at the message flows happening in topics subscriptions.

Enter yopa, a local SQS and SNS simulator whose sole purpose in life is to make developers' lives easier! Open sourced by Unbounce and coded in Clojure by yours truly, yopa builds on the solid foundation of ElasticMQ and adds its own SNS implementation.

Granted, yopa only supports SQS and SNS for now so it's light years away from truly being Your Own Personal AWS but, hey, let's start small and see where it goes. And actually, there are already discussions about adding support for some EC2 and S3 APIs features as well.

So if you're using SQS and SNS, please give yopa a try! Pull requests are more than welcome.

PS. Oh, there's also a Docker image available...

Erlang + Cloud Files = cferl

To celebrate the return of CloudCamp in Vancouver, I'm happy to announce the very first release of cferl, the Erlang API for Rackspace Cloud Files.

cferl fully implements the current version of the Cloud Files API. With it, you can very easily create and manage storage containers and the data objects they contain. You also have full control over the publication of your data objects on Rackspace's CDN.

Here is a short example that demonstrates a few operations using cferl:

That's all it takes to create a container, add an XML document into it and make it available to the rest of the world over CDN!

To probe further, you can:

• Browse the readme document that contains many more syntax examples.
• Download cferl 1.0.
• Fork the project or report issues on github.

Enjoy cferl!