Tag Archives: Auto-scale
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 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
Identifying Workloads for the Cloud
Identifying workloads to move to the cloud can be tricky. You have dozens or hundreds of apps running in your organization, and now that you’ve seen the operational efficiencies and agility available to you in the cloud, you’re tempted to … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Management
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Batch Processing, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Hybrid Cloud, private cloud, S3, Scalable Web Apps
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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
RightScale Server Orchestration and Amazon SWF launch
The launch of Amazon’s SWF (see also Werner’s blog) is a good opportunity to talk about some of the exciting new automation features that we have in the works and we will make available with the coming releases. We’ve been using … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud Computing, EC2
Tagged Auto-scale, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, EC2, RightScale
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Cloud Foundry Architecture and Auto-Scaling
Yesterday’s blog post mostly covered the benefits of VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS and how it fits with RightScale. Today I want to dive a little into the Cloud Foundry architecture and highlight how IaaS and PaaS really are complementary. I’m … Continue reading
Animoto’s Facebook scale-up
The Animoto guys did hit the jackpot on Facebook this past week. Jeff Barr mentioned a few of the stats on his blog: Animoto ramped from 25,000 users to 250,000 users in three days, signing up 20,000 new users per … Continue reading
