- 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