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

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 3:47AM
General Chicken in AWS, Example

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

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).