I don't know anything about shipping, but I wonder how much of the crews' time is spent in maintenance and repairs. Are they trained to fix common issues? What happens when the robot boats break down?
Or are they just there to fill minimum crew size regulations and babysit ships that mostly drive themselves anyways?
Self-funded health insurance plans are very common with employers. Third-party administrators (TPAs) that provide the claim processing are big business.
It's pretty cool that at least two of the off-site links from that page are still live, considering how quickly most sites from that era fell into link rot:
I think more flexible is a better word -- it can do more than what you can do when you bake a static image because you also use it to dynamically manage a running system post-boot.
Ansible can deploy all of your dependencies, keep them updated, push out configuration changes, and deploy your main application code.
I don't use AutoScaling, but no reason it couldn't be used with Ansible. The docs have a bit of detail on how to do it. http://docs.ansible.com/guide_aws.html
I create an AMI with a bare minimum OS. Then I use a configuration management tool to install all software packages, libraries and configurations. My new favorite is Ansible (ansibleworks.com) but Chef and Puppet are others.
Updates are easier this way versus having to rebake images.
Reminds me a bit of treesaverjs.com, which created automatic magazine-like page layouts for any size screen, but unfortunately seems to have run out of steam.
Do you plan on offering a complete solution for publishers including CMS integrations?
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