The group I work with is a technology incubator group within a larger company. We are tasked with making new products with revenue roadmaps but we also consider ourselves as a testbed for new technology that can be spun off and used by other divisions.
When it came time to decide our hosting model for our shiny new business information platform EC2 was just really hitting a tipping point in terms of reliability. In this case tipping point means there was about a year of data showing the service works as advertised and there was a shortage of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt hanging over the thing. Our project was complicated but finite with a modern API design so it was a good demo for this. I did some testing and talked with smarter-than-me peers and decided it was stable enough to run with. We examined it from a business perspective and came up with hedge logic that “if for some reason we don’t think it will work then we just move it on to local unix boxes – nothing lost”.
- Author: steve berry
- Published: Mar 21st, 2009
- Category: Geekage
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