• Amazon Web Services Blog: “HelloWorld” Facebook Application AMI
  “We could extend this AMI and build an Auto-Scaling module around the app so that we can simply “Auto-Scale Facebook Applications” out of the box and never worry about servers when you get famous overnight.”
  (tags: Amazon ec2 s3 facebook architecture scalability performance)
• InfoQ: Think you know what scalability is?
  “Scalability” is a word often cited in software vendor press releases (and discussed around the water cooler), but is quite often misunderstood. For example, many people infer performance and high availability when they are talking about scalability
  (tags: architecture scalability Enterprise applications performance)

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