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Summly: An Award Winning Mobile App's Journey to the Cloud with Five-9s Availability on a Shoestring Budget
Eugene Ciurana describes the architectural choices, servers configuration, database, and caching systems that enabled Summly to achieve Five-9-Availability with cross-continental deployments.
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Wavefront — Declarative Programming for the Cloud
Molham Aref introduces LogicBox, a database that unites declarative programming (logic-based specifications) with cloud deployment over large datasets using the Datalog programming language.
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How Zynga Handles Monitoring at Scale in Its Hybrid zCloud
Matt West explains how to use technologies like CloudStack, Beanstalk, Gearman, mod_gearman, Nagios, nagconf and other tools to monitor large web applications at scale deployed in the zCloud.
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Build Your Own PaaS the Netflix Way!
Sudhir Tonse presents Netflix' composable PaaS built with several components that have been open sourced.
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Architecting Organizations for the Cloud
Sebastian Stadil advises on selecting the right cloud from EC2, GCE, or OpenStack based on one's needs, outlining the deployment and administrative challenges to be faced with each option.
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How Netflix Architects for Survival
Jeremy Edberg discusses how Netflix designs their systems in order to survive outages, network latency and random instance failure.
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Dare Mighty Things: How JPL Explores the Cosmos through the Clouds
Rob Witoff presents how JPL and the Curiosity rover mission use cloud computing, including EC2, CloudFormation, and Simple Workflow - to enable research, engineering and operations technologies.
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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010
Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.
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Grails and the World of Tomorrow
Peter Ledbrook reviews how cloud computing, multiple data stores and multi-device client UI influence the creation of web applications in Grails.
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Pallet
Hugo Duncan introduces Pallet, a DevOps Clojure tool for provisioning and automating cloud server instances. (Lighting talk.)
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Resiliency through Failure - Netflix's Approach to Extreme Availability in the Cloud
Ariel Tseitlin discusses Netflix' failure-based suite of tools, collectively called the Simian Army, used to improve resiliency and maintain the cloud environment.
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Enabling Cloud Services with Programmability
Chris White shares Riverbed’s experience using REST across multiple products, being integrated with Python, JavaScript, OpenStack, Puppet, Django, jQuery, and other technologies.