Deep Dive: Migrating from a Data Center to AWS

Cloud Computing Monitoring Tools Key-Value Database

memcached Landing Page
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memcached

High-performance, distributed memory object caching system
Pricing:
- Open Source
Most of our refactoring was simple: making hard-coded values configurable, or turning certain features on or off depending on environment. Sending email through SES meant specifying an SMTP hostname and credentials, and in some cases upgrading email delivery to use TLS for improved security. We introduced Memcached to cache database query results and server-side rendered views.

#Key-Value Database #Databases #NoSQL Databases 29 social mentions
JMeter Landing Page
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JMeter

Official Twitter account of JMeter, the open source load testing tool by @TheAsf. Code: https://t.co/ADK2A8Pl14. Website: https://t.co/oc0MW2ksea
Pricing:
- Open Source
We set up staging environments in AWS to test our new infrastructure. Starting with some relatively modest capacity choices (1-2 t3.small instances per web app), we performed load tests on the most popular pages on each site. We built some simple load testing scripts that wrapped Apache JMeter commands:.

#Development #Monitoring Tools #Website Testing 34 social mentions
Amazon AWS Landing Page

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Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

The client's IT manager reached out to us to see if we could help migrate 16 of their sites to a cloud hosting provider and improve infrastructure reliability. We already maintained a few of their web applications, so they knew we would be familiar with what was needed to support a migration. We also have plenty of experience managing complex services and web apps hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 362 social mentions