"Auto-Scale" Rails Applications

Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, AWS

Paul Bissett, CEO, WeoGeo
Scott Becker, Senior Dev, WeoGeo
http://www.weogeo.com/

"swim across the atlantic ocean" on Google Maps - NY to UK

Send him an email to get on EC2 : jinesh@??

People as a Service
- Mechanical Turk

Infrastructure as a Service
- SQS, S3, EC2
- EC2 : Elastic Compute Cloud

Render Farms, Hosting Platforms, Test boxes

AMI -> Amazon Machine Image (can share)

SOAP/Query API
- DescribeInstances, RunInstances, TerminateInstances, CreateKeyPair
- GetConsoleOutput, RebootInstances, ImageAttributes stuff

Overall
- Elastic capacity - expand and contract infrastructure - scale up/down
- no physical infrastructure
- root level access
- pay by uptime/hour
- integrated with Amazon S3
- preconfigured (bundle) and shareable AMIs
- Web Services

What could be built?

- Time bound applications
- scale on demand applications

Time bound applications

- s3.amazonaws.com/thursdate/index.html

Auto-scale ("Elastic") Applications

- CPU, Heap, load/TCP, in-memory usage, DB call rate, Disk IO, SQS queue
length/job wait

http://weoceo.weogeo.com/

ec2ui - firefox XUL ui for your Amazon AMIs

Latency between SQS and EC2

WeoCEO
(runs on the frontend proxy server)
- stable ip addressing
- fail-safe monitoring
- load balancing
- auto-scaling
 spike insurance

AWS + WeoCEO + ECommerce = Massive savings, durable operations, good user

experience

Sensor Test: CPU, Disk IO, etc

HAproxy