Scaling in the cloud
Thijs FerynEvangelist+32 (0)9 218 79 [email protected]
MicrosoH webcafé @ CombellThursday February 17th 2011Combell, Gent, Belgium
About me
I’m an Evangelist at Combell
About me
I’m a board member at PHPBenelux
About me
I’m a Zend CerWfied Engineer... and a modest contributor to various open source projects
Follow me on TwiYer: @ThijsFeryn
Read my blog: hYp://blog.feryn.eu
Who are you?
What is Cloud?
DefiniWon
DefiniWon
A consumpWon and delivery model for the internet where flexibility is key and can be
ensured throughout abstracWon
AbstracWon
Flexibility
Internet as commodity/uWlity
Scalability
Performance == speed
Scalability == constant speed under increasing load
VerWcal scalability
Horizontal scalability
What about the cloud?
VirtualizaWon
Fast setup & deployment
ElasWc resource allocaWon
Pay as you go/grow?
Redundance, replicatoin & loadbalancing
High availability
What about your applicaWon?
Bridge the gap
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