Scaling a web application is a very hard problem, especially for small projects and teams who do not have sufficient manpower, money, and time to solve this problem. Luckily others stepped in and solved most of those problems. This talk will cover Amazon’s and Google’s cloud computing infrastructure for scaling web applications. After introducing topics like the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the Simple Storage Service (S3), Google AppEngine, or BigTable, usage scenarios for common web application problems will be demonstrated. With the simple scenarios covered, complete in-the-cloud architectures and applications will be examined. The aim of this talk is to enable the audience to run their complete web applications in either Amazon’s or Google’s cloud infrastructure.

Presentation files: Living in the Compute Cloud Presentation.pdf