Videos tagged with Amazon Web Services

This isn't your "Gang of Four". Christopher will discuss his experiences building Amazon's EC2 and the Opscode Platform, and the experiences of others designing large-scale online services. From API to access control, to deployment and configuration, we'll explore the techniques that work, and some that don't with an critical eye toward your next design.

The talk will focus on how I (with the help of the entire Cloudant team) built our database service based on CouchDB on top of EC2. Specifically how we use Erlang, Chef, EC2 and other tools to build highly available and performant database clusters. This includes using Chef and Erlang's hot code upgrades to automate cluster-wide upgrades without restarting any services.

As CTO of a successful high-growth startup, and in my new stealth company, I've seen my share of challenging scenarios keeping a very busy PostgreSQL-based business online and responsive during tremendous growth. EC2 + PostgreSQL + PostGIS + + Scala + Ruby + no downtime. Others can probably learn from my battle scars! Running multiple PostgreSQL, Ruby, Solr, and Scala instances on the EC2 cloud...

The concept of cloudbursting is very appealing. Who wouldn't want to maximize control and minimize costs by running a few servers in-house and borrowing public cloud resources when the odd demand spike occurs? This arrangement is particularly appealing if you already have a reason to run at least part of your system in-house, like Big Data that would cost a fortune to store in the public cloud....

SimpleGeo provides hosted services for location-aware applications, one of which is a cloud spatial database. One can make puns and jokes about "a cloud within a cloud" until blue in the face, but the reality of the matter is that accomplishing such a thing is a non-trivial technical endeavor. Designing for failure is a hard requirement by definition, which turns out to be a blessing in disguis...

Summary Two of ThoughtWorks’ finest, Martin Fowler and Jez Humble, talk about the notion of Continuous Delivery, which enables organizations to build software that is production ready at all times. To do this, enterprises automate the build, deployment, and testing process, and improve collaboration between developers, testers, and operations. The duo discusses a variety of related issues. Bio ...

Summary Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise. Bio Adrian Cockcroft is an architect at Netflix leading the Cloud Systems group. He authored Sun Performance and T...

Summary This QCon London presentation has two distinct parts: the first covering the process of moving an application to the cloud and the second the "philosophical" reasons for adopting a cloud computing solution for your enterprise. The first part is essentially an experience report and is focused on the AWS platform. Bio Stefan is the Chief Monkey of Soocial, interface designer, software dev...

Summary This presentation discusses how Amazon's Web Services can help Web developers solve common but vexing problems, including scaling. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple DB are discussed in detail along with the Simple Queue, Simple Storage, and Flexible Payment Services. Each discussion covers basic concepts, example APIs, and brief introductions of case studies. Bio Jeff Barr is S...

In this talk, Wolski presents Eucalyptus, an open source implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with Amazon.com’s EC2. The talk focuses on the design, the implementation tradeoffs that have been identified in implementing Eucalyptus as an exploratory tool, and the ways in which the tradeoffs have been addressed in the first version of the software. Rich Wolski (Uni...