cloud camp milan 2k9 whereisnow.com: starting-up a web business on the cloud
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Starting-up a web businessA tale of stepping to Cloud Computing
Initial considerations
Ideato provide self updating information
documents, contacts, urls, bookmarks
Solutionan internet service which always returns the address where you can find the latest version of a given info.API (WSDL) available to create new applications
ArchitectureNeed to avoid “success disaster”-“slashdotting” and other great news
http://www.whereisnow.com
Need to scale out
90%read – 10%writeHorizontal scale out
The team: different feelings
Sys admins love Hardware Time & Money: problems for every founder
Why we moved to the cloud
CostCapex eliminationNo doubts about overspending / under-provisioningPay as you growth model
TimeNo HW to choose, order, install, configure and mantain!Few minutes to get a new server up and runningAlways run the same app on the same HW
Focus on core businessUse shared solutions (firewall, monitoring…) Reduce the time to market
Our Cloud
Infrastructure as a service: Amazon CloudEC2 Apache2, Tomcat, Axis2/Rampart, Terracotta, MemCached, MySQL
S3 DB backups and other configurations data
EBS DB hot data
Managing the Cloud: RightScaleUseful list of server templates & scriptsMulti deployment (I love it)Monitoring & AlertsAuto ScaleOur “single point of configuration”
http://www.whereisnow.com
Thinking big, starting small
-4 EC2 small Instances- 2 apache (LB), 2 tomcat+axis2, 2 terracotta- 4 memcached- 1 MySQL Master,1 MySQL Slave… and we can scale up and down as needed
-4 EC2 small Instances- 2 apache (LB), 2 tomcat+axis2, 2 terracotta- 4 memcached- 1 MySQL Master,1 MySQL Slave… and we can scale up and down as needed
The team: same feeling
After a hard work, founders and sys admins are happy to still move their steps on the CLOUD.
[email protected]@whereisnow@marcelloorizi