http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog Internet, mobile applications, skiing, snowboarding, food... you know, whatever comes to mind. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:24:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2009/04/08/327/ http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2009/04/08/327/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:36:49 +0000 Mike Brittain http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/?p=327 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.

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