Drupal In The Cloud

Drupal in the Cloud! Josh Koenig drupal.org/user/3313 josh@chapterthree.com www.getpantheon.com twitter.com/pantheon_drupal twitter.com/outlandishjosh Monday, March 15, 2010

“The Cloud” Is... Monday, March 15, 2010

2009’s Top Buzzword Monday, March 15, 2010

Hand-Waver Hype Monday, March 15, 2010

“Scaling Silver Bullet” Monday, March 15, 2010

When something sounds too good to be true... It probably is. Monday, March 15, 2010

Just Say No Monday, March 15, 2010

“The Cloud” really is... Monday, March 15, 2010

Hosting! Monday, March 15, 2010

Speciﬁcally, it’s a new model for hosting. Monday, March 15, 2010

Traditional hosting = Real estate Monday, March 15, 2010

Most real estate consumers are renters. Few love their landlord. Monday, March 15, 2010

Owning comes with lots of responsibilities and hidden costs. Monday, March 15, 2010

Large scale projects are expensive, slow, and prone to setbacks. Monday, March 15, 2010

“The Cloud” = Hosting as service API Monday, March 15, 2010

On-demand availability Monday, March 15, 2010

Usage-based pricing (usually hourly) Monday, March 15, 2010

Reliable, reusable start-states Monday, March 15, 2010

The cloud is good! Monday, March 15, 2010

Less waste Monday, March 15, 2010

More freedom Monday, March 15, 2010

But not a silver bullet! Monday, March 15, 2010

Monday, March 15, 2010

Performance can vary Monday, March 15, 2010

Journal of Eivind Uggedal: VPS Performance Comparison http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison Monday, March 15, 2010

Abstractions aren’t the same as the real thing Monday, March 15, 2010

New tricks to learn Monday, March 15, 2010

For Entrepreneurs and Upstarts (like Drupal), the Cloud is Destiny Monday, March 15, 2010

Start with pennies, scale to millions. Monday, March 15, 2010

Create products (cheaply). Monday, March 15, 2010

Grow organically, but still grow fast. Monday, March 15, 2010

Be The Center Of Your Own Universe Monday, March 15, 2010

Should You Host In The Cloud? (maybe you already are) Monday, March 15, 2010

Begin Nuts and Bolts Presentation • Launch a server in the cloud • Players in the space • Practical cloud use-cases • Dollars and cents • Cloud architecture howto • PANTHEON: Drupal in the cloud Monday, March 15, 2010

Demo: Boot Mercury Monday, March 15, 2010

(generic) (no code!) (limited language support) Managed Cloud Services (no root) Monday, March 15, 2010

Most Mature Monday, March 15, 2010

Hungry Like The Wolf (a really big wolf) Monday, March 15, 2010

Small, Brainy, Excellent Global CDN Monday, March 15, 2010

And More Every Day... Monday, March 15, 2010

VPS is Becoming Quite Cloudy Monday, March 15, 2010

Linode Monday, March 15, 2010

SliceHost (Rackspace) Monday, March 15, 2010

VPS.net Monday, March 15, 2010

And More Every Day... Monday, March 15, 2010

Custom/Private Cloud Services Monday, March 15, 2010

Cloud Value-Adders... Monday, March 15, 2010

Cloud/Cluster Management Services Monday, March 15, 2010

Cross-Cloud Services (and libcloud.org) Monday, March 15, 2010

Cloud Tools For Drupal (shameless plug: getpantheon.com) Monday, March 15, 2010

What Is It Good For? Monday, March 15, 2010

Testing / Continuous Integration Monday, March 15, 2010

Development Infrastructure Monday, March 15, 2010

Products and Services Monday, March 15, 2010

High Availability/Enterprise Hosting Monday, March 15, 2010

Making This Crazy Dream Come True “social starﬁsh” by Darren Barefoot: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/1814873464/ Monday, March 15, 2010

C.R.E.A.M. (part 1) Monday, March 15, 2010

24x7x365 infrastructure tends to be a wash in the cloud Monday, March 15, 2010

However: Don’t Underestimate Opportunity Cost Monday, March 15, 2010

Easy Savings Are In Trafﬁc Patterns Monday, March 15, 2010

Burstable = Inexpensive Surge Protection Monday, March 15, 2010

Cloud Caveats • Honest clouds admit they have downtime. So will the others. Instances will fail, though not much more often than real servers. • Performance can be impacted by other local activity. • Virtual disks tend to have relatively poor I/O performance. Monday, March 15, 2010

Solutions • Accept the inevitability of failure. • Embrace the paradigm of redundancy and rapid recovery. • Develop architecture with modular, replaceable parts. • Stay fast by minimizing disk/cpu utilization for menial tasks. Monday, March 15, 2010

The Cloud in Production • Monitor your load. • Spin up more instances (scale horizontally) as you need more power. • Add layers (scale vertically) as bottlenecks emerge. • Create Images for each piece in your infrastructure. • Best Practices To Stay Speedy Monday, March 15, 2010

Best Practices? C.R.E.A.M. (pt 2) Monday, March 15, 2010

High Performance Drupal Architecture • Front-side caching: Use Pressﬂow with Varnish and/or NgineX. • Opcode cache (APC) keeps your bits hot. • Memcached helps to minimize queries to the database. • Use dedicated, separately-scalable tools where possible, like ApacheSolr search. • Architect for vertical scaling by utilizing all service layers, even if it’s one box. Monday, March 15, 2010

Comin Atcha! Monday, March 15, 2010

Technical Info Mercury is a standardized high performance stack for Drupal. It is available in source format, or (soon) as an on-demand service. It utilizes the best available open-source technologies to make our favorite CMS very fast and to hold up under large spikes in traffic. Monday, March 15, 2010

Vision: From One Box to Cluster Monday, March 15, 2010

We Have A Dream Monday, March 15, 2010

Q & A! josh@chapterthree.com twitter.com/pantheon_drupal twitter.com/outlandishjosh #drupalinthecloud Monday, March 15, 2010

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Drupal In The Cloud

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