We were asked to prepare a generic document for a LAMP-based startup, running one on machine in the corner of an office, looking to cope with massive scale, disaster recovery, and self-healing resilience, all within three months. Here’s what we came up with given only the above in the context of Amazon Web Services offerings. Most of their services are just shortcuts for doing the same thing yourself. Continue reading
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AWS CloudFormation Case Study
I was asked to write up how I implemented CloudFormation as it began to roll out. It helped me replace RightScale wholesale, in as flexible a manner as I cared to code in json. Below is a draft. Continue reading