In my last update I ended up sounding the alarm and talking a bit about the moves that we needed to make. The good news is that the first phase (stability) is now complete, and we are fully out of the woods. As I type this, the final parts of the performance burn-in are happening, and we will start to begin the next phase, which is the elimination of EC2 Classic. For the non-technical among us, we utilize Amazon web services to not be reliant on any generosity. E2 is a business, and is self-funding, and keeping costs down by using modern infrastructure is a huge benefit for the model and the continued survivability of the site
The major accomplishments here are pretty big and am happy to talk about them. First, we have moved over to AWS Opsworks to help manage and deploy our code on managed Ubuntu images, this is big because it means we can wind down our custom log shipping code and use the CloudWatch primitives for custom logs.…