Archive For October 31, 2010
I did a talk earlier this week on the sea change currently taking place in datacenter networks. In Datacenter Networks are in my Way I start with an overview of where the costs are in a high scale datacenter. With that backdrop, we note that networks are fairly low power consumers relative to the total…
What happens when you really, really, focus on efficient infrastructure and driving down costs while delivering a highly available, high performance service? Well, it works. Costs really do fall and the savings can be passed on to customers. AWS prices have been falling for years but this is different. Its now possible to offer an…
Long time Amazon Web Services Alum Jeff Barr has written a book on AWS. Jeff’s been with AWS since the very early days and he knows the services well. The new book Host Your Web Site in the Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy, covers each of the major AWS services, how to write code…
This morning I came across an article written by Sid Anand, an architect at Netflix that is super interesting. I liked it for two reasons: 1) it talks about the move of substantial portions of a high-scale web site to the cloud, some of how it was done, and why it was done, and 2)…
Hosting multiple MySQL engines with MySQL Replication between them is a common design pattern for scaling read-heavy MySQL workloads. As with all scaling techniques, there are workloads for which it works very well but there are also potential issues that need to be understood. In this case, all write traffic is directed to the primary…