Scaling AWS With Scalr
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Onista, Inc. is a bootstrapped startup focused on real-time price negotiation and qualified sales leads, leveraging social networks. The document discusses the challenges faced during development, including poor architecture and inadequate support systems, and introduces solutions like AWS for scalability and Scalr for automated scaling. Ultimately, the emphasis is on the importance of software architecture and the need for efficient cloud solutions.
Scaling AWS With Scalr
- 1. Tales of a Bootstrapped Startup Onista, Inc
- 2. What is Onista? Real-time price negotiation
- 3. Qualified sales leads and zero upfront cost
- 4. Leverage power of social network
- 5. Amalgam of eBay, LendingTree, Priceline, Alibaba and LinkedIn
- 7. The Beginning Custom PHP development
- 8. Huge Product Requirements Document (PRD)
- 9. Wire frames
- 11. Classic Pitfalls Wire frames used as templates
- 12. No Architecture
- 13. No Logging
- 16. No Reporting support
- 17. No Database Abstraction Layer
- 18. SQL embedded in the code
- 19. There's Gotta be a Better Way! Discover MVC Smarty templating engine
- 21. Refactor business logic Retrofit with Logging, Reporting and Alerting
- 23. Improve security
- 24. The Birth Database Webserver Appserver Data
- 26. Will roll over and die
- 27. Can't cope with spikes
- 28. Enter the Cloud
- 29. Discover AWS S3
- 30. EC2
- 31. SimplePay
- 32. AWS Promise Infinitely Scalable Instances
- 34. Stop thinking about capacity Is it really?
- 35. AWS Reality Infinitely Scalable Instances start unlimited instances Infinitely Large Storage code architecture needs to change Stop worrying about capacity start worrying about manual labor Throw your default assumptions away No persistent file system
- 36. What is Scaling? The ability of a web system to respond to unexpected load without a denial of service
- 37. Two Kinds Manual Scaling
- 38. Auto Scaling
- 40. Self-Curing
- 41. Configuring
- 42. Monitoring
- 43. Open Source !
- 44. Free as in beer!
- 46. How does it work? http://scalr.googlecode.com/files/processes.png
- 47. Trails with Scalr Documentation Great User Guide
- 48. No Admin/Install guide :( Trial and Error
- 49. Needs experience with DNS server setup
- 52. Moment of Truth Self host Scalr One instance for itself
- 53. DNS Server Use Scalr.net
- 54. Use CloudInCode
- 56. Onista Setup CloudInCode Onista
- 57. Summary Scaling is hard Scalr makes it easy Don't manage Scalr yourself Use CloudInCode Software architecture is the important
- 58. Q &A