Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds - ReadWriteWeb
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Saved by 16 people (-7 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-02-18
- Deblanda on 2009-01-04 - Tags cloudcomputing , readwriteweb , amazon , cloud , scalability
- Djhell on 2008-08-17 - Tags Ausfall , AWS , Cloud , Computing , ReadWriteWeb , importiert , Cloud Computing
- Geography on 2008-08-10 - Tags no_tag
- Suhit_a on 2008-06-27 - Tags cloudcomputing , readwriteweb
- Dwaxman on 2008-04-08 - Tags vitaband , infrastructure
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Albert Wenger said something to me recently that stuck in
my head: We live in a stochastic world, but people fail to grasp it because all they experience is right now.
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> The first scalability issue is fairly minor - threads and socket connections
of the Apache web server.
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The first scalability issue is fairly minor - threads and socket connections
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The problem with LAMP is in its scalability.
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But the
second problem with LAMP is far more significant - the MySQL relational database is the ultimate bottleneck of the system.
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The load balancer forwards a request to any one box and it is processed
in a stateless manner - meaning the request is followed by an immediate response and no state is held by the system.
The beauty of the cloud is in its scalability - you scale by simply adding more boxes.
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Whatever is part of your
core business you build. Everything else you buy.
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By focusing on what truly
makes you unique and different you have the chance to beat the competition.
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It is not a single failure of the system
that is indicative of the performance. It is the frequency of failures that we should look for.
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The point is,
as Albert Wegner explained, we need to think about this stochastically.
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Public Comment
on 2008-02-18 by tacanderson
Especially as the Web becomes more mobile, cloud computing will become ever more important.
Amazon's S3 outage demonstrates the limitations in the cloud and, for me, demonstrates why some sort of distributed Cloud/Host system will always be required for apps.