Simon Willison’s Weblog

Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. “At OpenX we recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of our server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience.”

Posted 10th April 2009 at 9:43 am

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