The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we did. We detached servers from dedicated hardware, we made spin up and spin down so easy that we just replaced malfunctioning servers (which […]
Launching Applications to the Cloud – It’s all about Scalability and Speed
It is not hyperbolic to state that today’s web services deal in hyperscale realms when one considers stats such as The Amazon cloud can handle up to 1 million transactions per second during peak loads Facebook was managing 890 million daily active users on average for December 2014 There are 500 million tweets sent per day […]