Load balancing done right, finally!

Contributed by Anoop P B on Apr 9 2014

ELB Connection Draining - Remove Instances From Service With Care So it is now (finally) possible to ensure that all in-flight requests are completed before an instance gets de-registered from an ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) (graceful removal). Until now, anytime an instance was removed from ELB, the plug was...

Creating an infinitely scalable architecture for sites like GOSF

Contributed by Anoop P B on Dec 11 2013

When you have a site like GOSF to build, it becomes super important that it is architected to scale very very well. Given that such a shopping fest site may run for just 24 or 48 hours, scalability is not just a consideration for the architecture of...

Its curtains down on the biggest cloud conference of the year!

Contributed by Anoop P B on Nov 25 2013

AWS Re:Invent 2013 was easily the biggest Cloud conference this year with over 8000 attendees, 175+ sessions and boot camps. This year's keynotes had elements addressing enterprise needs/concerns and those of web-based businesses & start-ups. This first day saw the launch of several new services with Andy Jassy (SVP, AWS)...

‘Demystifying DevOps’ meet @ Neev Technologies – 5th Oct 2013 – A Recap

Contributed by Venkat on Oct 9 2013

Development and Operations – DevOps is becoming a buzz in the industry. Today, DevOps is bringing Development and ITOps together like never before. We, at Neev, being active practitioners of DevOps are able to glean tremendous benefits from our use of the same. The huge knowledge we have gathered on...

Magento Extensions we use for customization of email, product display and content

Contributed by Govind Dalwani on Sep 20 2013

The Magento extension we use for the purpose of Content is:

AW_Blog

Company:

Aheadworks

Project used in:

Giftease.com

Rock.in

Miraistore

Extension URL:

www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/blog-community-edition.html

Description:

The Blog extension for Magento allows you to add blog content using this extension. It not only provides customers with regular up-to-date information but brings additional visitors to your site, builds relevant SEO-friendly...

Auto-Scaling Amazon ElastiCache

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Aug 30 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service provided by Amazon. It is protocol compliant with memcached. So one can use ElastiCache as a memcached server without having to run and manage a memcached server. Launching a cluster of ElastiCache nodes is a matter of a...

Magento Performance Comparison Between AWS and Digital Ocean - A Few Findings

Contributed by Anoop P B on Aug 22 2013

We did a performance comparison between Amazon AWS and Digital Ocean and here is our preliminary findings. We set up base Magento on AWS as well as on DigitalOcean (DO) (SSD based cloud) and did some tests using sample data. In all cases, AWS version was faster loading by 20 to...

Why Visual Cloud? - The ‘behind the scenes’ story

Contributed by Anoop P B on Aug 17 2013

Cloud infrastructure teams often create and maintain deployment diagrams & documentation. Information about which servers are running in each AWS environment and what is the size & state of the servers tend to get quickly out-of-date without a rigid process in place. Furthermore, the current state of an environment in...

Computing operating cost on AWS and other hosting providers

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Apr 24 2013

Recently while designing the architecture of one of the project, the client asked us to compute the operating cost of the architecture we were proposing.  Below are the steps we followed to compute the same for AWS. The same can be used for other hosting environments. Basically you need to find...

My AWS Wishlist

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Apr 22 2013

AWS services are just awesome but like any service/tool there are always more that you expect from them. Here is my AWS wishlist.

  1. Support for gzip encoding for S3. This is useful when serving static assets like Javascript, CSS over S3/Cloudfront. With gzip download time will reduce for ascii files since...