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[august forsakov]

Hi Tim.

This is about having a loadbalancer on AWS. In order to have this working
optimally, the app needs to have neatly segregated coding and data.
As you know AWS works with instances, volumes and separate loadbalancers...
In order to have redundancy the application needs to be cross-region. It
happens that there are 2 regions in Ireland (from what I gather).
The problem comes about when there is a mix of data and application code
across regions... much cleaner if you can mount a volume with just the
data...
Of course its possible to mount the whole (in our case tomcat) ROOT
directory on an AWS volume, but it may not work as well as having
everything properly carved up... and mounting a separate data Volume...
The way AWS architecture is set up, you have to make sure your app complies
with this requirement ...

Hope that clarifies...



On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hey,
>
> Drop me a note and tell me why you think the application won't run in that
> environment. I've got a lot of experience engineering large, distributed
> application platforms up to EC2 (think Realestate.com.au) and would be
> interested to hear where your break point is.
>
>
>
> T.
>
>
> On 29/04/13 5:00 PM, august forsakov wrote:
>
>> Yes. Have considered. App isnt capable for AWS, has to do with
>> separation of data and logic. Thnks tho.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Tim March <march.tim at gmail.com
>> <mailto:march.tim at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Have you considered using AWS? Just spin up your instances in the
>>     same availability zone than use elastic IP/LB's for front end
>>     routing and load balancing. It'll take you a 10'th of the time to
>>     get up and running (eg. you'll have your hosts in 5 minutes) and be
>>     infinitely more configurable and more resilient than a physical box.
>>
>>     Spinning up ESX hosts in shady DC's on the other side of the world
>>     is a thing of the past. Viva le cloud... =)
>>
>


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Best regards.
Gus
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