EclipseCon 2009 Day 3 Summary

Attended the keynote session href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=752">Building
Applications for the Cloud with Amazon at href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/">EclipseCon 2009,
Day 3 ( href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse">day
href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/glassfish_beanie_open_solaris_cd">2
href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/eclipsecon_2009_day_2_in">here).
Here are some brag
points about Amazon
Web Services gathered from the session:

• 88 million customers, operated in 7 countries, data centers
  all around the world, core competency externalized for customers,
  pay-as-you-go
  model.
• AWS Elastic Compute Cloud has 2 components:
• Compute
  EC2: Rent by the hour, spin up/dial down based upon the need.
• Storage
  S3: Access from anywhere with fairly low latency
• Some simple primitives like href="http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/">SimpleDB
  (database), Simple
  Queue Service (messaging), href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/">Cloud Front
  (content delivery), Flexible
  Payments Service (payments), href="https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome">Mechanical Turk
  (on-demand workforce) on top of Compute & Storage.
• 1/2 millon registered developers on AWS
• 40 billion objects stories in S3 (4 times growth in last
  year)
• href="http://blog.animoto.com/2008/04/21/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-on-animoto/">Animoto
  case study:  Growth from 40 to 5000 instance after
  launching facebook application
• AWS Principles: Reliable, Scalable, Low-latency, Flexible,
  Easy-to-use, Inexpensive
• AWS Usage: Web site/Application hosting, Media
  distribution, Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Financial apps,
  High-performance computing, Software development/testing
  

SmugMug CEO
shared their usage of EC2 and S3 for href="http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/06/03/skynet-lives-aka-ec2-smugmug/">SkyNet
(fka Rubberband):

• Millions of photos/day
• BIG photos, upto 24MB, 48mpix
• 40+ terapixels processed/day
• Peaky traffic on holidays/weekend (elastic)
• Full HD processing: 1920 x 1080p
• No capital costs, Elastic, Better taxes: No depreciation
  & amortization
• Totally autonomous, make a decision (roughly once a minute)
  to turn on/off a worker, takes into consideration approx 50+ inputs
  such as historical data, type of job, queue status, recent activity
  

And then was the fun part where href="http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/">AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
was announced. It was pretty cool to deploy a web application ( href="http://www.jspwiki.org/">JSPWiki in this
case) to a local server and then the same application to a Tomcat
cluster on EC2. And you can even debug after attaching to a running
instance as well. Pretty cool! And it was certainly exciting to know
that GlassFish
is already on their roadmap :)



And then I spent rest of the day talking to attendees and preparing
this blog! The GlassFish beanies were a huge hit all around the floor
and we also distributed Hudson
stickers.



Here are some pictures of Day 3:

And the complete photo album below:



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