A while back I wrote a blog on how to use Delphix in AWS cloud. It was sort of a thought experiment, because the performance of EBS was too slow for serious database usage. However, with the release of Amazon's latest high performance EC2 SSD instance, things changed. Netflix had done their Cassandra benchmark with the new instance. They were able to use this instance to replace the m2.4xlarge instance with cache and cut about 60% of cost.
To me, the fast I/O EC2 instance now makes AWS very attractive to be used for data intensive analytics project. It also means you can really run databases in the cloud without relying on heavy (sometimes custom) caching*. I can hardly wait to see if I can use it in my future project.
*See the very interesting five-minute rule on how SSD improves the disk performance.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Magician's Trick
There are tons of info on the web about cloud computing and highly scalable systems. However, rarely the whole architecture of a product is illustrated. The architecture of a product is like the magician's trick: a trade secret.
That's why I got very excited when I stumbled upon the Netflix slides. For the first time, a product of such scalability and availability was showed in details. For those who have always pondered how the magician pulls it off, this is treasure. Better yet, the SVForum Cloud and Virtualization SIG is doing a Netflix Night on March 27th. There is also another meetup on the same night focused on how Netflix migrated from Oracle to Cassandra. Are things too good to be true?
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