2. Next 10 min
The Company
Why Cloud
The App Examples
Progress So Far
What’s Next
3. The New York Times
Company
The New York Times
The International Herald Tribune
The Boston Globe
15 daily newspapers
50 Web sites
NYTimes.com
Boston.com
About.com
4. NYTimes.com’s
Stats
In the US:38.1 mil unique users /
month810 mil page views / month
Worldwide:62 mil unique users /
month984 mil page views / month#1
individual newspaper site#2 media
site bloggers link to the most*#4 news
and information Web site
comScore Report, April 2011
*Technorati's index
11. “SkimmerGate”
11:00 News leaks to
TechCrunch, Google
Finance
11:10 Average load on the
instance is 40
11:15 Snapshotting the
instance, configuring the
LB, testing
12:00 Four Skimmer
instances load balanced,
quality is restored
1 hour - from prototype to
production
18. Gap Analysis
• Load Balancing
• Communication between instances
• Talking back to existing Datacenter
• Scaling up and back
• Securing the instances
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26. Tools Developed for the
Cloud
Nimbul
Light Cloud Manager
http://github.com/nimbul/nimbul
Emissary
Fast AMQP Messaging
http://github.com/nimbul/emissar
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CloudSource
Simple SVN Deployment
http://github.com/nimbul/cloudsourc
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