The myth behind cloud autoscaling for ecommerce sites
April 7, 2016
Grazed from eConsultancy. Author: Mike Bainbridge.
Infrastructure hosting as we once knew it, has been reduced to a commodity purchase. If you want to host a website or online application, it has never been easier. Building a highly scalable, fully redundant environment can be done in minutes, using either a browser or one of hundreds of automation tools.
While infrastructure is boring, it is still an essential foundation of any platform. For online retailers, things have never been better. Ecommerce sites can take full advantage of a wide range of technology solutions. The nirvana of website hosting is an achievable reality. At the heart of it is automated scaling. A drop in website performance is detected (usually due to an increase in traffic) and more cloud instances are deployed…
This autoscale works in both directions, so if you have a lull in demand then your application runs on the minimum footprint. This means you only pay for what you use and it is driven by performance metrics…
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