Distributing your app across 34 servers will require a non-trivial development effort itself. Not to mention, there was a story here just this week about how c

Distributing your app across 34 servers will require a non-trivial development effort itself. Not to mention, there was a story here just this week about how communication between EC2 nodes may be a lot of reddit's performance trouble. Scaling horizontally is inevitable at a certain scale, but it's no panacea.