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Scalr
is a recently open-sourced
framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing
Cloud (EC2) service. While web
services have been using EC2 for increased capacity since
Fall 2006, it has never been fully “elastic” (scaling requires adding and
configuring more machines when the situation arises). What Scalr promises is
compelling: a “redundant, self-curing, and self-scaling” network, or a nearly
self-sustainable site that could do normal traffic in the morning, and then get
Buzz’d in the afternoon. -
Those behind Scalr believe open-sourcing their pet project will help disrupt
the established, for-pay players in the AWS management game, RightScale and WeoCeo. Intridea, a Ruby on Rails development firm, originally
developed Scalr for MediaPlug, a yet-to-launch “white label
YouTube” with potentially huge (and variable) media transcoding needs. Scalr was
recently featured on
Amazon Web Service’s blog.I’d argue that Scalr makes Amazon EC2 significantly more interesting from a
developer’s standpoint. EC2 is still largely used for batch-style, asynchronous
jobs such as crunching large statistics or encoding video (although increasingly
more are using it for their full web server setup). Amazon for their part is
delivering on the ridiculously hard cloud features, last week
announcing that their EC2 instances can
have static IPs and can be chosen from certain data centers (should really
improve the latency). But for now, monitoring and scaling an EC2 cluster is a
real chore for AWS developers, so it’s good to see some abstraction.
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Brent SordylI’d argue that Scalr makes Amazon EC2 significantly more interesting from a developer’s standpoint.
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Jon AlexanderScalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service.
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