Author Archives: Brian Adler
AWS Outage Lessons Learned: If Netflix Can Suffer, So Can You
On Christmas Eve and continuing into Christmas Day, AWS had a “Service Event” centered on the ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) service in the US-East region. Although only a small percentage of ELBs were functionally disabled and unable to route traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged AWS, Cloud Computing Best Practices, High Availability, Outage
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Top 9 Tips for Fine-Tuning Your Cloud Architecture in 2013
Before you congratulate yourself on crossing off those final to-dos for 2012, don’t forget this critical one: fine-tuning your applications and cloud architecture. And while it’s unlikely that you’ll accomplish this task by end of year, here are nine tips … Continue reading
Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Database Tier
This week brings me to the fourth and final post in my series on Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud, where previously I’ve discussed techniques for hardening your application infrastructure at the load balancing, web/application, and caching tiers. In today’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices, High Availability, Performance
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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Caching Tier
Last week I discussed the application tier and the implementation considerations that come into play with regard to promoting the availability and resiliency of that tier of your architecture. Here, in the third article in my series on Architecting Scalable … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Caching, Cloud Computing Best Practices, EC2, High Availability, Performance
Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Application Tier
This week’s post is the second in a series on Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud, which summarizes some of the typical discussions I have with RightScale customers as they bring their new (or existing) applications into the cloud. Last … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2
Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices
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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud
As an architect in the Professional Services group, I get the opportunity to talk to a lot of RightScale customers. And I enjoy it very much since I get to learn about all their cool new ideas and the technologies … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2
Tagged Cloud Computing Best Practices
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Three Quick Wins for Cloud Computing
Are you still trying to decide how to move your organization into the cloud? Do you already have servers in the cloud but can’t figure out how to best utilize them? At RightScale, we have these conversations with prospective customers … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, ServerTemplate
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Seven Things to Consider Before Building a Private Cloud
Not so long ago, if you were like many CIOs or ops managers, you were consumed with issues related to providing power, space, and cooling for corporate datacenters. As the capabilities of server hardware continued to increase (Moore’s Law stands … Continue reading
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Four Steps to Achieving High Availability in the Cloud
Constructing a high-availability application in the cloud can seem like a daunting process. The key is to assume that every component of a system will fail at some point and to prepare for that eventuality. Then you can build for … Continue reading
Private and Hybrid Clouds: Like Sex in High School
RightScale CEO Michael Crandell recently explained to a journalist at The Register that “the hybrid cloud is a little bit like sex in high school — everybody is talking about it, but not everybody is doing it.” While that may … Continue reading
