deploy a scalable website
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Best Practices in the Cloud:
Deploying a Scalable
Website
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Your Panel Today
Presenting• Michael Crandell – Founder, CEO• David Welch – Sr. Sales Engineer• Betsy Zikakis – VP, Marketing
Q&A• Hunter Williams – Sr. Account
Manager• Daniel Howard – Sr. Account Manager
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RightScale Introduction Why Cloud Computing? Scalable Website Case Studies Live Demo Q&A – Getting Started
Please use chat to ask questions anytime!
Agenda
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• 15,000 users, hundreds of customers
• Half a million servers launched
• Scaling events: 50-3500 servers 3 days, 7000 cores
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Cloud computingRightScale
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You just lostcustomers
Classic IT ProblemInfrastructureCost $
time
LargeCapital
Expenditure
OpportunityCost
PredictedDemand
TraditionalHardware
ActualDemand
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Solution: Managed CloudInfrastructureCost $
time
On DemandProvisioning
PredictedDemand
ActualDemand
AutomatedScaling
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AUTOMATION ARCHITECTUREAUTOMATION ARCHITECTURE
CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS
CLOUD-READY SOLUTIONS
EXPERTISESERVICES
EXPERTISESERVICES
Cloud Management System
RIGHTSCRIPTS
MYSQL MGR
WEB SITE
GRID
Cloud ApplicationsCloud Applications
Amazon Rackspace Sun/Oracle Eucalyptus VMWare
Righ
tSca
le
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Case Studies
• Web 2.0 Sites • Social Game Providers• Mobile Services and
Portals• Media Processing Sites
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Global reach Carrier-grade reliability Full 24/7, 365 support
Stock Quotes
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Technical flexibility Repeatable, ”clean-room” design promotes
stability and process Great sandbox for testing and
benchmarking
Beijing Olympics
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in 3.5 days50 to 3500 servers
Animoto on Facebook
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iFixit
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“We keep our website running fast. Over the course of dozens of large traffic events, we've learned a thing or two about handling large spikes in server traffic. Thanks to cloud computing and Amazon EC2, today we're able to dynamically scale our capacity to meet demand.”
iFixit
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Auto Scaling Requirements
MonitoringAlerts & Escalation
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Auto Scaling Requirements
Dynamic Configuration of Servers and DeploymentProcess AutomationLoad Balancing
MonitoringAlerts & Escalation
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Auto Scaling Requirements
DashboardAudit Trail
Dynamic Configuration of Servers and DeploymentProcess AutomationLoad Balancing
MonitoringAlerts & Escalation
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Autoscaling with RightScale
• Rules-based system• More than just launching an
instance– Complete system architecture– Auto configuration into cohesive
resilient cluster– Support for workflow and
lifecycle management
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• Rules-based, back-end batch processing
• Reduce and stabilize customer wait time
• Grow/shrink grid workers based on wait time or queue size
• Work with any type of grid task - content analysis, media transcoding, web crawling
Scale Back-end Servers with Grid
Edition
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RightScale Benefits
• Pre-defined, tested architectures
• Configurable scaling options
• Automation through the deployment lifecycle
• Portability to eliminate lock-in
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Q&A - Getting Started
Thank you for listening!
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Best Practices in the Cloud:
Deploying a Scalable
Website