– meta
— chris richardson
— automated, outsourced, data center management for java apps on amazon ec2
— sdforums does cloud camps?
— wrote “pojos in action”
– why java?
— 22% market
— grails?
— spring, hibernate, terracotta, scala
— java’s community is growing
– cloud
— 18 months experience
— learning curve
— ephemeral storage
— elastic ips
— cloudtools?
— provide amis preconfiged w/ java stack: apache/tomcat/mysql
— cloudfoundry
— a hosted service
— targeted at jvm community
— monitoring ans automated management
— support
— features
— you provide war files + sql scripts
— written in jvm language
— portable
— run your apps on your amazon instance
— you can use your favorite framework
— demo
— define a name
— upload a .war file
— .war file is stored in s3
— example
— grails app
— short-term
— fluctuating load: sat/sun 4 servers, mon-fri 1 server
— a perfect candidate for amazon ec2
— app deployed by the developers
— conclusion
— contribute to cloudtools
— tiers
— db
— terracotta caching
— ap server
— ?
— QA
— what if my app needs to run solo? not yet
— ejb/j2e apps?
—- you shouldn’t be using it.
—- not yet
—- ibm will build AMIs for pop software