– rightscale alternatives
— chef
— sponsored by att
— an opensource ruby project
— puppet
— cfengine
— scalr.net
— way cheaper than rightscale

– ec2 alternative
— eucalyptus
— opensource project on a private cloud
— akamai now hosts applications on their edge servers

– load balancer
— haproxy (http://haproxy.1wt.eu/)
— software based
— allows us to route all traffic to a new cluster once it’s launched and running
— red5
— hardware based
— algorithms
— round robin