Here’s a little taste of where we’re going with automatically spinning up web clusters on our shiny new cloud infrastructure:
It will be yours to play with soon 
Archive for the ‘Web cluster’ Category
Parallel spin-up
Friday, October 8th, 2010No longer a critical event
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Does this scare the hell out of you?
It used to scare me too, until I started using Hybrid Web Cluster. Now this isn’t a critical event any more. I can be developing on three virtual machines, one of them crashes, and I don’t even notice! All my websites and databases just carry on running as normal.
Awesome profile visualisation
Saturday, June 26th, 2010This is call profile graph of my latest invention, AwesomeProxy. This lets us move sites and databases between servers without a single failed HTTP request. Working on some optimisations, I wanted to see how much time was spent in each function call.
Gprof2Dot outputs pretty awesome graphs. This is what you get when you run AwesomeProxy for three minutes at 10 requests per second. I really like how you can see the structure of the code
