Tag Archives: HA

Downtime sucks! Designing Highly Available Applications on a Budget

Downtime sucks. I write this whilst sitting in an airport lounge, having been disembarked from my plane due to a technical fault. I don’t really begrudge the airline [..]

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Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications

A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled Scale-Out. Distributed. Whatever the Name, it’s the Future of Computing. Taking the concept a step further, I recently started thinking [..]

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Amazon AWS Tips and Gotchas – Part 10 – EFS (Elastic File System)

Continuing in this series of blog posts taking a bit of a “warts and all” view of a few Amazon AWS features, below are a handful more tips [..]

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Amazon AWS Tips and Gotchas – Part 8 – AWS EC2 Reserved Instances

Continuing in this series of blog posts taking a bit of a “warts and all” view of a few Amazon AWS features, below are a handful more tips [..]

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