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How we autoscale our EC2 Infrastructure
- jedberg 14y agoWhenever anyone asks me about autoscaling, I always point out that making the autoscaling rules is more art than science. There is a lot of trial and error, but in the end you have to kind of go with your gut on what the business needs.
- mittermayr 14y agoi really like the google docs as a reporting/monitoring outlet idea, it's not the gist of what your article is about, but i usually always had my own reporting wired up, seems like an interesting thought to use google docs for that. is that a common thing, do people do their reporting through google docs? going to try this out.
- rpm4321 14y agoAs a developer who's never been entirely comfortable with the hardware end of things, it seems like there is a tremendous opportunity here. I would pay a lot for set it and forget it hosting, where if you get TechCrunched or HNed the only consequence would be a spike in the amount of your bill. It seems like this would be a very difficult problem to solve - kind of like Dropbox getting their service to work seamlessly on every device and OS - but doable, and very lucrative for whoever gets there first.
- tosh 14y agoTake a look at Google App Engine :)
- rpm4321 14y agoThanks for the tip :) No, I'm well aware of App Engine and Heroku. I guess I'm talking about an even greater level of abstraction and simplicity - an "Apple Easy" layer where you never have to think about any aspect of the servers, and that scales all aspects of the app seamlessly without any user intervention. In my opinion, Heroku and App Engine aren't there yet.