{"id":180,"date":"2007-04-10T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T07:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2007-04-10T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T07:54:17","slug":"infinitely-scaleable-web-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/180-infinitely-scaleable-web-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Infinitely scalable web services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Jeff Barr <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2007\/04\/another_databas.html\" target=\"_blank\">links to several posts<\/a> about buiding scalable web services on S3 (web storage)&nbsp;and EC2 (on-demand server instances).<\/p>\n<p>I have not had time to look into the detail of these new initiatives, but the concept is compelling. This is where Amazon&#8217;s programmatic approach pays off in a big way. Let me summarise:<\/p>\n<p>1. You have some web application or service. Anything you like. Football results; online store; share dealing; news service; video streaming; you name it.<\/p>\n<p>2. Demand of course fluctuates. When your server gets busy, the application <strong>automatically<\/strong> fires up new server&nbsp;instances and performance does not suffer. When demand tails off, the application <strong>automatically<\/strong> shuts down server instances, saving you money and making those resources available to other EC2 users.<\/p>\n<p>3. Storage is not an issue; S3 has unlimited expandibility.<\/p>\n<p>This approach makes huge sense. Smart programming replaces brute force hardware investment. I like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0010fdf9-067a-498b-8814-440448644047\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/amazon%20s3\" rel=\"tag\">amazon s3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ec2\" rel=\"tag\">ec2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/web%20services\" rel=\"tag\">web services<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Jeff Barr links to several posts about buiding scalable web services on S3 (web storage)&nbsp;and EC2 (on-demand server instances). I have not had time to look into the detail of these new initiatives, but the concept is compelling. This is where Amazon&#8217;s programmatic approach pays off in a big way. Let me summarise: 1. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/180-infinitely-scaleable-web-services.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infinitely scalable web services<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}