Surge 2011 ~ Battle Scars: Scaling Big Startups in the Cloud
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...