Running Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2

126 Pages·2009·1.34 MB·English

Running Java and Grails
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Chris Richardson
Author of POJOs in Action
Founder of Cloud Tools and Cloud Foundryy
Chris Richardson Consulting, Inc
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Overall ppresentation ggoal
Show how to use
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for developing and deploying Java
applications
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• Grew up in England and live in Oakland, CA
• Over 20+ years of software development
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• Author of POJOs in Action
• Speaker at JavaOne, SpringOne, NFJS,
JavaPolis, Spring Experience, etc.
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• Run the Groovy/Grails meetup
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helps organizations reduce development costs
and increase effectiveness
• Founder of Cloud Tools, an open-source project
for deploying Java applications on Amazon EC2:
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• Founder of a startup that provides outsourced,
automated, and Java-centric datacenter
management on the cloud:
www.cloudfoundryy.com
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About You
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(cid:134)Prior experience
(cid:134)Expectations
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Aggenda
(cid:134) Amazon-style cloud computing
(cid:134) AWS deep-dive
(cid:134) Usingg Amazon EC2
(cid:134) Overview of Cloud Tools
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(cid:134) Deploying on Amazon EC2
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Compputingg has come a longg wayy
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Yet we rarelyy have enouggh hardware
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Tyyppical web apppplication
Can we afford the production hardware?
Do we know how much to buy?
How long does it take to buy and install?
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Can we afford a test lab?
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Cloud compputingg
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infrastructure that hosts your
application, and is billed by
consumpption
By James Staten
of Forrester
Research
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is managed via a web services API
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Power ggeneration
Past
Present
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Amazon-Styyle Cloud Compputingg
SSiimplle QQueue SServiice SSiimplle DDBB
(SQS) (name/attribute pairs)
Elastic Compute Cloud
Pay per
((EC2))
use
services
Simple Storage Service
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(EBS - SAN)
by
CloudFront
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(content delivery)
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