Resilience and Reliability on AWS

Resilience and Reliability on AWS

by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli, Jasper Geurtsen
Released January 2013
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781449339258

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Book description

Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devastating interruptions by building your own resilient and reliable applications in the public cloud. Guided by engineers from 9apps—an independent provider of Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus cloud solutions—you’ll learn how to combine AWS with open source tools such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.

This isn’t a book on theory. With detailed examples, sample scripts, and solid advice, software engineers with operations experience will learn specific techniques that 9apps routinely uses in its cloud infrastructures.

  • Build cloud applications with the "rip, mix, and burn" approach
  • Get a crash course on Amazon Web Services
  • Learn the top ten tips for surviving outages in the cloud
  • Use elasticsearch to build a dependable NoSQL data store
  • Combine AWS and PostgreSQL to build an RDBMS that scales well
  • Create a highly available document database with MongoDB Replica Set and SimpleDB
  • Augment Redis with AWS to provide backup/restore, failover, and monitoring capabilities
  • Work with CloudFront and Route 53 to safeguard global content delivery

Table of contents

  1. Resilience & Reliability on AWS
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
    1. Audience
    2. Conventions Used in This Book
    3. Using Code Examples
    4. Safari® Books Online
    5. How to Contact Us
    6. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. The Road to Resilience and Reliability
    1. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Mason
    2. Rip. Mix. Burn.
    3. Cradle to Cradle
    4. In Short
  6. 3. Crash Course in AWS
    1. Regions and Availability Zones
      1. Route 53: Domain Name System Service
      2. IAM (Identity and Access Management)
    2. The Basics: EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, SES, and CloudWatch
      1. CloudWatch
      2. EC2 (et al.)
        1. Instance
        2. Image (AMI, Amazon Machine Image)
        3. Volume and snapshot (EBS and S3)
        4. Security group
        5. Elastic IP
      3. RDS
      4. ElastiCache
      5. S3/CloudFront
      6. SES
    3. Growing Up: ELB, Auto Scaling
      1. ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)
      2. Auto Scaling
    4. Decoupling: SQS, SimpleDB & DynamoDB, SNS, SWF
      1. SQS (Simple Queue Service)
      2. SimpleDB
      3. SNS (Simple Notification Service)
      4. SWF (Simple Workflow Service)
  7. 4. Top 10 Survival Tips
    1. Make a Choice
    2. Embrace Change
    3. Everything Will Break
    4. Know Your Enemy
    5. Know Yourself
    6. Engineer for Today
    7. Question Everything
    8. Don’t Waste
    9. Learn from Others
    10. You Are Not Alone
  8. 5. elasticsearch
    1. Introduction
    2. EC2 Plug-in
    3. Missing Features
    4. Conclusion
  9. 6. Postgres
    1. Pragmatism First
    2. The Challenge
      1. Tablespaces
    3. Building Blocks
      1. Configuration with userdata
      2. IAM Policies (Identity and Access Management)
      3. Postgres Persistence (backup/restore)
        1. WAL Archive
        2. In Practice
      4. Self Reliance
    4. Monitoring
    5. Conclusion
  10. 7. MongoDB
    1. How It Works
      1. Replica Set
        1. Set configuration
        2. Set endpoint
        3. Userdata
      2. Backups
    2. Auto Scaling
    3. Monitoring
    4. Conclusion
  11. 8. Redis
    1. The Problem
    2. Our Approach
    3. Implementation
      1. userdata
      2. Redis
        1. Configuration (maxmemory)
        2. Persistence
        3. Monitoring
      3. Chaining (Replication)
        1. SimpleDB
        2. Redis cluster
        3. Route 53
        4. Failover
    4. In Practice
  12. 9. Logstash
    1. Build
    2. Shipper
      1. Output Plug-in
    3. Reader
      1. Input Plug-in
      2. Grok
    4. Kibana
  13. 10. Global (Content) Delivery
    1. CloudFront
      1. (Live) Streaming
        1. Wowza
      2. CloudFormation
      3. Orchestration
    2. Route 53
      1. Global Database
  14. 11. Conclusion
  15. Copyright

Product information

  • Title: Resilience and Reliability on AWS
  • Author(s): Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli, Jasper Geurtsen
  • Release date: January 2013
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781449339258