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Effective DevOps with AWS

You're reading from   Effective DevOps with AWS Ship faster, scale better, and deliver incredible productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466815
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nathaniel Felsen Nathaniel Felsen
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Throughout this chapter, we have explored a number of concepts and tools to scale a typical web application. We started off learning how to take advantage of the ELB and the Auto Scaling group services to build a solid foundation that will handle almost any amount of traffic by automatically scaling up and down the number of instances used by our application. In addition, this solution will handle possible failures by replacing bad instances and it works great with our deployment pipeline created in Chapter 4, Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. While that solution will almost always work, it can become very costly if we don't try to optimize for cost and performance, therefore, we looked at using ElastiCache and CloudFront to take some load off our application and database.

In order to get to the next stage of scaling an application, we looked...

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