{"id":474,"date":"2015-03-17T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T06:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-03-17T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T06:13:47","slug":"how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware-high-scalability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware-high-scalability\/","title":{"rendered":"How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real\u00a0Hardware &#8211; High Scalability &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hard truths &#8211; cloud is not always the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Great comment <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=9212467\">from HN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance variance:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8211; machine latency varies more, you can&#8217;t control it<br \/>\n  &#8211; network latency varies more<br \/>\n  &#8211; storage latency varies more (S3, Redshift, etc.)<br \/>\n  &#8211; machine outages are more frequent<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/highscalability.com\/blog\/2015\/3\/16\/how-and-why-swiftype-moved-from-ec2-to-real-hardware.html'>How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware &#8211; High Scalability &#8211;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard truths &#8211; cloud is not always the answer. Great comment from HN: The reason why it is extremely hard to engineer robust large scale AWS cloud apps can be summarized under the umbrella of performance variance: &#8211; machine latency varies more, you can&#8217;t control it &#8211; network latency varies more &#8211; storage latency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}