Scalable, Low Latency Web Tier on Amazon EC2

Shay Hassidim, deputy CTO at GigaSpaces, posted an impressive write-up of a benchmark the team ran on Amazon EC2. What’s nice about it is that they took a standard web app, in this case the Spring PetClinic, and dropped it into the GigaSpaces container, achieving instant low-latency and scalability, with out-of-the-box load-balancing and fail-over. Extremely cool.

The other components in the app include standard and open source components: Jetty, MySQL, Apache load-balancer, JMeter and Ant.

Also, Shay posts a screen shot (I think it’s the first-ever public one) of the new GigaSpaces cloud framework. Check it out:

See the full benchmark numbers on Shay’s post. And you can sign up for a GigaSpaces pay-per-use EC2 license here.