We just migrated the image processing on artweb.com from our own load balanced EC2 auto scaling group of instances to use blitline instead. The auto scaling group is launched and shut down with the scripts attached below. In our implementation the instances were a simple phpthumb installation that we processed images via http request. Whilst […]
scalability
Preparing Your Website/Web App For Scalability
Congratulations, your server is melting. This is a good problem to have (server heat is proportional to # of users). And it’s not so difficult to deal with if make a few preparations in advance. After launching a number of web services and viral social media apps, some of which grew to hundreds of concurrent […]