A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a ServiceBuilding the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment s notice can be a complicated and expensive task, but it s essential in today s business landscape. This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectedly saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch. There are many challenges when building a reliable, flexible architecture that can manage unpredictable behaviors of today s internet business. This presentation will review some of the lessons learned from building one of the world s largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. The focus will be on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system. From O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, CA, April 15, 2008.
