Multi-Server Cloud Environments, How to Fight Latency and add Redundancy

Speaker(s):

Nick Moline, Dan Nagy

Whenever people say they want to add redundancy, decrease downtime, and make things faster the answer always seems to come back "cloud!" But any time you work with multiple separate servers there are issues you have to deal with to keep things fast and redundant. The cloud actually adds some complications that you have to take into consideration when you want to make sure things stay up and fast.
In this talk I will go over techniques you can use for setting up a multi-server environment in the cloud that keeps things both redundant and fast.
Topics covered will include:

how to have a shared file system that is both redundant and fast, as well as how to have seemless failover (hint, NFS is not your friend, and yet it can be)
Using Amazon's services instead of rolling your own to both add redundancy and increase speed (RDS, Elasticache, Elastic Load Balancer, and Cloudsearch vs rolling your own databases, caches, and search systems).
Multi-zone and Multi-region deployments that work!

Nick's Google Presentation

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