[Cialug] SquareTap, my mobile WEB app store

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dave Hala Jr <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
>> What a great idea this is.
>>
>> What kind of infrastructure were you looking at purchasing?
>>
>>
> I've decided for now to stick with EC2 for a while. It's working well. I
> think what I'll do is hire a part-time sysadmin who can help ensure backups
> are working and who can maybe help set up the auto-scaling stuff. (I'll make
> sure to e-mail this list when this becomes possible)
>
> Right now on one micro instance ($0.02/hour) I'm getting about 60 req/sec.
> I can scale that up to 5 instances and get nearly linear scaling. I think
> that will get me through for a while.
>
> Optimizing Django turned out to be a bit tricky and it seems to be CPU
> intensive. Therefore I was think I'd have to buy servers in order to scale.
> However I was able to use the Django Debug Toolbar to find some areas
> needing improvement. Also, for work I've been doing some performance
> analysis and found out that Jinja2 may be able to provide a significant
> boost in addition to what I'm seeing now.
>
> Thanks a bunch for your support and encouragement. There's three days of
> voting left. http://squaretap.com/vote ;-)
>


Also, thanks to Justin Carlson, I've been able to put together a contest to
help encourage people to use and vote for SquareTap, check it out:
http://www.squaretap.com/contest/

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin and twitter

♫ You're never fully dressed without a smile! ♫
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20110829/e2d20209/attachment-0001.html>