1. Search Engines Flying in The Cloud
Nigel Hamilton
founder

4. 2 People
30,000,000 Search Hits Daily

5. 1
Haproxy load balancer
2,000 concurrent requests

6. 25-100
Metasearch Nodes

7. 25
Memcache
Nodes

8. 1
MySQL
Master
1
MySQL
Slave

9. Maximum flexibility for scaling up and down
– resources and cost
Low stress – testing and capacity planning

10. Design a collapsing cluster
Lego blocks - KISS
Programmable resources – model the 'physical' part