Grig Gheorghiu wrote up a nice article on handling high traffic sites on EC2. It’s definitely worth a read for some high-level concepts about multi-tier architectures. It doesn’t talk deeply on details of EC2 (would have liked to see something mentioned about availability zones for MySQL and load balancers). One thing I really liked was the concept of using multiple load balancers with round-robin DNS pointing at them. I’ve been considering this as an option and have played around with HAProxy already. It’s likely a future step for our new image service at CafeMom.
Archive for April, 2009
I’ll be speaking at Velocity on how to improve service with your CDN. The talk is part of the web performance track. A detailed outline of the talk is available on their site. I’m pretty excited to share some of the tricks I’ve learned over the last 3 years with CDNs. There’s also a great roster of speakers who I’m looking forward to seeing there. Early registration is now open.
