S3: A Flexible Approach to Uploading in Rails
S3, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, is a cheap, scalable, highly available, and overall great solution for storing huge bits of data and thus reducing your database size. For a while now, we’ve realized that our database is on its path to becoming expensive and unmanageable due its massive size. So we decided to migrate some of that data over to S3.
In this article, I explain the approach we took to make any attribute S3able