Category Archives: Cloud Computing
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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Best Practices: Managing Web Application Sessions
Everyone has an opinion about how you should write your application. Whether it’s the structure, language, or database (or not!) that you choose, there are plenty of people telling you what you should do, but not how to do it. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged ASP.net, Chef, Cloud Computing Best Practices, RightScripts, Session
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
New EC2 instance types and coordinated failures in the cloud
Amazon announced a new series of instance types today that do not have any local storage. This got me thinking about some of the failure modes we’ve seen. The specifics are that AWS released the “m3″ series of instances with … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
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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
The Most Important IT Metric: Quality of Experience
Today’s guest post comes from Ephraim Baron, an IT operations expert at Equinix, a global platform of high-performance data centers housing many of the world’s largest public clouds and a RightScale partner. Application performance and end-user quality of experience (QoE) … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Cloud Partner
Tagged Equinix, Hybrid Cloud
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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RightScale Credentials Best Practices
Credentials within RightScale offer a convenient way to store sensitive or frequently used values in an easily manageable interface. It’s important to remember that RightScale credentials consist of a Name, Value and Description and are intended to be used as … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Credentials, RightLink, RightScripts, ServerTemplate
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