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Name: Nick Bettison
Hometown: London, UK
Primary development language(s): PHP
Application currently hosted on OpenShift: [rx]Alarm
Technologies used: PHP, Bootstrap, Jquery
What's it do?
[rx]Alarm is an advanced console for rackspace cloud monitoring.Welcome to the OpenShift Developer Spotlight where we try get to know the members of the OpenShift community a little better. Interested in being featured? Apply here.
View the Developer Spotlight page to see past entries and the Application Gallery to check out the cool apps the OpenShift Community is building.
Name: Nick Bettison
Hometown: London, UK
Primary development language(s): PHP
Application currently hosted on OpenShift: [rx]Alarm
Technologies used: PHP, Bootstrap, Jquery
What's it do?
[rx]Alarm is an advanced console for rackspace cloud monitoring. Using the rackspace API, [rx]Alarm can configure application status alarms to monitor your cool web apps. Multiple monitors from different global locations can be received and diagnosed from one single console.
What motivated you to create the application?
Web APIs offered by cloud companies offer the opportunity to "do something better" with a product, Rackspace's current cloud monitoring app is in it's infancy, I wanted to take it one step further.
What are the most compelling features of OpenShift?
The speed and simplicity! Openshift gives a hassle free test environment, my laptop development tools haven't changed but the hassle of running local virtual machine is completely removed!
What are some features you'd like to see in OpenShift?
Quota control, Red Hat must have put some limits on what gears can do... disk usage, memory usage, bandwidth, it would be reassuring to know how much of those quota we're using in order to judge or plan the upgrade from a free to paid account.
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