AWS Ephemera — Debugging Doubled S3 Hostnames

Angela Wolff
Sep 5, 2018 · 4 min read

It’s Engineering Project week at Makers and I have had a mightily frustrating day…

I’ve been trying to figure out how to save images uploaded using carrierwave into a remote database hosted by Amazon Web Services.

That comes directly after another very seriously frustrating day where I managed to crash our production site, hosted on Heroku, because (who knew?) it didn’t store image files.

Apparently it is ephemeral.

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Angela Wolff

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Ex-NHS Accountant, now a coder at the V&A. Makers July 2018 cohort.

Bean Counter to Coder

Documenting my journey to coding mastery via the Makers Academy bootcamp

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