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Presentation from Gigaom's Structure 2014 conference, June 21-22 in San Francisco The right and wrong way to scale Taylor Rhodes, CEO, Rackspace #gigaomlive More at http://events.gigaom.com/structure-2014/
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Taylor RhodesRackspace
THE RIGHT (AND WRONG) WAY TO SCALE
The Right (And Wrong) Way to ScaleTaylor Rhodes
Changing the way theworld thinks about
SCALING
Zack Rosen Ben Golub Alex PolviCEO, CoreOSCEO, DockerCEO, Pantheon
What's on their minds?
Retired instances
NOISY NEIGHBORS
Multi-tenant Cloud at Scale
BEHAVIOR PERFORMANCE AVAILABILITY
SCALE
TRAFFIC
SMALL LARGE
COMPLEXITY
Complexity = More Cost
OVERPROVISIONING
ARCHITECT FOR
FAILURE
ARCHITECT FOR
INCONSISTENCY
VIRTUALIZATIONTAX
$
PROTOTYPE
GROW
OPTIMIZE
FANTASTIC FOR RUNNING AT
SCALE
COLOFANTASTIC FOR STARTING QUICKLY
MULTI-TENANTCLOUD COLOCATION
simple to scale
elastic
simple to scale
elastic
vs.
The Big Tradeoffs
Scaling OptionsToday
+
MULTI-TENANTCLOUD COLOCATION
simple to scaleelastic
vs.
We all want the same thing
Scaling OptionsToday
+
OnMetal
OnMetal
BARE METAL SERVERS
API-drivenInstantly Available
Highly Specialized
NoHypervisor
OnMetal
OnMetal
API HARDWARE
Simplicity atScale
Performancecost
OnMetal
SolidState
Detached Fans
Low Latency:10-Gigabit Networking
Optimized for Specific Workloads
DATABASESLOW-LATENCY
CACHING
HANDLING WEB
REQUESTS
Sexy Specs
DATABASES
PCIe Flash Storage: 3.2TB
RAM: 128GB
IOPS: more than 200,000
What About Virtualization?
Another Way to Scale?
STAY FAST AND LEAN
Scaling Cloud Apps
Wrong Way•Virtualized •One-size-fits-all servers•Running in shared environments
Right Way•Bare metal servers•Instantly available•API-driven •Highly specialized to the specific job you are doing
Why Rackspace?
•We’re not a hardware company
• But we listen to our customers
•OnMetal is open source and good for everybody
•We’ll differentiate on service
OnMetal
rackspace.com/onmetal
Sign up now for early availabilty
General availabilty: late July
The Right (And Wrong) Way to ScaleTaylor Rhodes