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Six Lessons Learned Deploying a Large-scale Infrastructure in Amazon EC2 

DateTuesday, April 7, 2009 at 3:47AM

Lessons learned from OpenX's large-scale deployment to Amazon EC2:

  • Expect failures; what's more, embrace them
  • Fully automate your infrastructure deployments
  • Design your infrastructure so that it scales horizontally
  • Establish clear measurable goals
  • Be prepared to quickly identify and eliminate bottlenecks
  • Play wack-a-mole for a while, until things get stable
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