1 Oct, 2008 in Elastic Compute Cloud by James

Amazon Web Services S3, EC2 and other AWS services

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First Speaker: VP of Amazon Web Services - Adam Selipsky
Motivation for building AWS - Scaling Amazon.com through the 90’s was
really rough.  10 years of growth caused a lot of headaches.
What if you could outsource IT Infrastructure?  What would this look like?
Needs:
Storage
Compute abilities
Database
Transactions
Middleware
Core Services:
Reliability
Scalability - Lots of companies have spiky business periods
Performance - CoLo facility and [...]

12 Jun, 2008 in Elastic Compute Cloud, Virtualization by James

Scalr project and AWS

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http://code.google.com/p/scalr/
For those of us getting into amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (ec2), this is a really cool idea.  The idea is that your load grows and a new node is ready to handle additional capacity.  Once load lessens, boxes are turned off.  Integrating this with box stats, response times, monitoring per service makes sense.
I wanted everyone [...]

11 Jun, 2008 in Advertising by James

OpenX - Open Source Ad Server Research List

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http://impactnews.grouphub.com/W1107356
I am compiling research on OpenX through forums, docs and other resources to help put together a more useful resource for first-timers. Check back for updates.