Re: anyone running is aws and postgresql website?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

W dniu wtorek, 18 czerwca 2013 19:05:26 UTC+2 użytkownik johannes falcone napisał:

> Curious how well ada handles maintenance and evolution?

Very well.

> Also, do you have memcached active to help with caching database results?

Why? One of the biggest advantages of AWS is that subsequent requests are handled within the same process, which allows to retain arbitrary information between requests without any additional complications. Moreover, all such program-level caching is type-safe and properly structured.
The only reason to use memcached with AWS could be to use it as a shared resource for several AWS instances, but depending on particular scenario other solutions might be more appropriate. In general, memcached was invented as a solution to problems that don't exist with AWS.

> Performance I assume is awesome.

Certainly better than commonly accepted alternatives.

> Are the any other factors to recomend such a combination over say rails or other run of mill popular frameworks?

The major other factor to use AWS is that the whole webservice can be deployed as a single executable, which allows to benefit from the capability of the compiler and linker to verify consistency of the whole program. I believe that this single feature alone allows to get rid of most of the deployment failures that usually happen with script-oriented techniques. This is actually my major motivation for using AWS, with performance being much further on the list.

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