Tag Archives: Performance

Top 9 Tips for Fine-Tuning Your Cloud Architecture in 2013

Posted on December 18, 2012 by

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 →

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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Database Tier

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

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 →

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Architecting Scalable Applications in the Cloud: The Caching Tier

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

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 →

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Four Steps to Achieving High Availability in the Cloud

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

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 →

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MySQL performance on Amazon EC2

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Spurred by Morgan Tocker I ran some sysbench MySQL performance benchmarks on EC2 instances. This is just the first round, more to follow… The set-up On a small instance, I reformatted /mnt with LVM2 and creates a 140GB xfs filesystem. … Continue reading →

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Network performance within Amazon EC2 and to Amazon S3

Posted on October 28, 2007 by

What is the expected network performance between Amazon EC2 instances? What is the available bandwidth between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3? How about in and out of EC2?…These are common questions that we get very regularly. While we more or … Continue reading →

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