From static to elastic web applications

The introduction of virtualization and cloud computing (Public or Private) enables us to create a new machine with a single API call. This is an extremely powerful capability that can change the way we design and deploy applications. Instead of running an application on a static set of machines, you can shrink and grow the application as needed.

In this post I’m discussing the changes that we made our application platform layer to get to the point where we could add a machine and the application can expand and shrink automatically based on the demand and av-liable resources.

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