Does This Cloud Make My App Look Fat?
The topic of the 5 minute lightning talk was about scaling applications in the cloud. I hope it was well-received. In the on-premise, physical server world both “scale-up” and “scale-out” approaches were impractical based on cost and complexity. 4-way or 8-way servers with gobs and gobs of RAM are an expensive way to grow vertically and add performance and though smaller systems used as part of a horizontal scaling approach are less expensive initially, they add a whole new level of complexity and expense in terms of ongoing maintenance. What’s more, during non-peak times all this compute infrastructure sat largely un(der)-utilized.
