Platforms like Amazon EC2 promise scalable and redundant systems for a couple of pennies. As soon as you start to build complex systems or migrate existing apps there are many knobs to set. This talk will explain how you can create and deploy reliable and redundant applications to EC2 and will point out all the little things you need to know, like how to automatically provision new servers with tools like Chef.
Jonathan Weiss
Jonathan Weiss is a consultant and partner at Peritor GmbH in Berlin, Germany. For the last years he has been developing and consulting on large Web projects where he focused on scalability and security. Nowadays he develops Scalarium, an EC2 Cluster Management solution and helps clients migrate to the Cloud. He is an active developer of several OpenSource libraries around CouchDB and Amazon Web Services and the author of Webistrano, a deployment tool.