AWS Customer Presentation: exfm - How exfm uses AWS and Amazon CloudSearch- AWS Summit 2012 - NYC

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1. The  ex.fm  story   Lucas  Hrabovsky,  CTO   AWS  Summit

    2012  -­‐  NYC  

2. Start  with  AWS   •  Previous  Experience  with  Colos  

   •  Used  EC2  and  S3  from  the  start   •  Manage  instances  using  Fabric   •  Use  IdenPty  Access  Management    

3. Embrace  ElasPcity  and  Ephemerality   •  Easily  handle  unexpected  successes

     •  “Let’s  try  a  different  machine  configuraPon”   •  “Where’d  the  database  go?”  

4. Move  Dev  Machines  to  Instances     •  Dev  box

    and  producPon  box  look  exactly  alike   •  Update  packages  &  configuraPon  silently   •  Use  cheats  to  replace  lack  of  GUI’s   – bit.ly/exfmgitcheatsheet   •  Bonus:  sharing  and  collaboraPon  

5. Move  to  Managed  Services   •  Cloudsearch      

   – bit.ly/exfmcloudsearch   •  Avoiding  lock-­‐in     •  AnPcipated  next  steps:  Apache  Zookeeper,   and  more   •  Focus  more  on  your  applicaPon;  less  on   infrastructure