{"id":3797,"date":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2374797"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"load-balancing-101-scale-versus-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/load-balancing-101-scale-versus-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Load Balancing 101: Scale versus Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the phrases you hear associated with cloud computing is &#8220;architecting for failure.&#8221; Rather than build in a lot of hardware-level redundancy \u2013 power, disk, network, etc\u2026 \u2013 the idea is that you expect it to fail and can simply replace the application (which is what you care about anyway, right?) with a clone running on the same cheap hardware somewhere else in the data center.<br \/>\nAwesome idea, right?<br \/>\nBut when it comes down to it, cloud computing environments are architected for scale, not fail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2374797\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the phrases you hear associated with cloud computing is &#8220;architecting for failure.&#8221; Rather than build in a lot of hardware-level redundancy \u2013 power, disk, network, etc\u2026 \u2013 the idea is that you expect it to fail and can simply replace the ap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}