Cloud Computing

Development
Cloud Computing
Development

Shallow Introduction
Introduction
 What is the cloud computing

Is it computing while in flight?

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 What is the cloud computing

Is it computing while in flight?

NO

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What is the cloud computing

What is it about then?

 What is the cloud computing

What is it about then?

Cloud computing is
consumption of computing
resources without worrying
about specifics.
 What is the cloud computing

What is it about then?

As well as ability to add or

remove resources according
to the demand.
 What is the cloud computing

What is it about then?

Similar to the power grid and

telephone network.
 What is the cloud computing

What is it about then?

Similar to the power grid and

telephone network.
 How does it work?
‣ Consumer signs up for the service.
(Same as if you get a mobile phone plan)

‣ Consumer uses services according to their needs

‣ Provider sends the bill at the end of the cycle

‣ Consumer pays
 Provider Models
Software As A Service Email
CRM
SAAS Office Apps
 Provider Models
Software As A Service Email
CRM
SAAS Office Apps

Platform As A Service Application Servers

Databases
PAAS Middleware
 Provider Models
Software As A Service Email
CRM
SAAS Office Apps

Platform As A Service Application Servers

Databases
PAAS Middleware

Infrastructure As A
Service Bare Hardware
(Sort of )
IAAS
 Providers
Software As A Service Google (GMail)
Salesforce
SAAS Microsoft (Office Live)
 Providers
Software As A Service Google (GMail)
Salesforce
SAAS Microsoft (Office Live)

Platform As A Service Google App Engine

Heroku / Engine Yard (Rails)
PAAS Windows Azure (.NET)
 Providers
Software As A Service Google (GMail)
Salesforce
SAAS Microsoft (Office Live)

Platform As A Service Google App Engine

Heroku / Engine Yard (Rails)
PAAS Windows Azure (.NET)

Infrastructure As A Amazon AWS

Service Rackspace
IAAS GoGrid
Provider: Windows Azure
‣ Platform as a service
‣ Windows based
‣ Storage provided through blob storage, drives,
SQL Azure
‣ State is stored and propagated with Queues and
Tables
‣ Integrated with Visual Studio
‣ Eclipse plug-in for PHP
Slide courtesy Vlad Vinogradsky from Microsoft
Provider: Google App Engine

• Platform as a service
• Python or Java based
• Storage provided through BigTable
• Automatically scales web nodes
 Provider: Rackspace
• Infrastructure as a service
• Very Basic just a few Linux or Windows images
• Provides storage with CloudFiles
• Very Cheap
• Open source API
• Relatively New
 Provider: Amazon AWS

• Oldest on the market

• Many services / Images / Third party providers
• Provides computation through EC2 / EMR
• Provides state / storage through S3, SQS, RDS,
SimpleDB
• Multiple APIs
 Sample Prices
Compute $0.10+ VM/Hr
Amazon Storage $0.15+ GB/Month
$0.15+ GB/XFer

Compute $0.02+ VM/Hr

Rackspace Storage $0.15+ GB/Month
$0.22+ GB/XFer

Compute $0.12 VM/Hr

Microsoft Storage $0.15 GB/mo
Bandwidh $0.15 GB/XFer
Development
 Practical Considerations

• Cloud Development is slightly different

from traditional in house model.
 Practical Considerations

• Cloud Development is slightly different

from traditional in house model.
• Everything is virtualized (most of the time)
• Everything is distributed
• Per instance reliability is much lower
• Overall reliability is much higher
Cloud Programming Model
 Cloud Programming Model
‣ Compute and Interface
nodes are not reliable,
they can crash and
disappear at any time.
‣ Storage and State are
reliable and heavily
distributed.
‣ At any time we can start
more compute or
interface nodes and shut
them down when demand
subsides.
 Cloud Programming Model on Azure

‣ Compute : Worker Nodes

‣ State: Tables / Queues / SQL
‣ Storage: SQL / Tables /
Blobs / Drives
‣ Client Inteface: Web Nodes
 Cloud Programming Model on AWS

‣ Compute : EC2 Instances

‣ State: S3 / Queues /
SimpleDB / RDS
‣ Storage: S3 / SimpleDB / RDS
‣ Client Inteface: S3 / EC2 /
CloudFront
 AWS Details: S3

‣ S3 = Simple Storage Service

‣ Guaranteed to be reliable
‣ Simple {Key,Value} storage
‣ Keys are stored within buckets
‣ Values could be as large as 5GB
‣ Default Storage Mechanism for AWS
 AWS Details: Simple DB

‣ Schema less database

‣ Main storage unit is domain ( similar to table )
‣ Each record can have many attributes, new attributes could
be added at any time
‣ Similar to LISP / Scheme attributes
‣ Can query domain for records containing particular
attribute
‣ No Joins / Unions with other domains
‣ Eventual Consistency
 AWS Details: RDS

‣ RDS = Relational Data Storage

‣ MySQL in a cluster mode
‣ Preferred to simply running DB server within instance
(ask me why for details)
 AWS Details: SQS

‣ SQS = Simple Queue System

‣ Massively scalable
‣ Allows to put message in the queue and retrieve later on
‣ Retrieving the message hides it from the other users
‣ When message is processed it is deleted from the queue
‣ If message is not deleted before the timeout it is returned
back
 AWS Details: EC2
‣ EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud
‣ Allows to run arbitrary virtual machines
Provided they are compatible with Amazon’s modified Xen

‣ Kernels and Startup Disks are stored in S3

‣ Also have large local storage
‣ Machines are not exactly like physical machines
‣ Local storage is not persistent
When machine is shut down all local data disappears.

‣ Hardware TCP [No packet layer / No Broadcast ]

‣ Can launch many copies of the machine at the same time
‣ Lot’s of preconfigured machines
 AWS Details: Other Services

‣ EMR = Elastic Map Reduce

Let’s run Hadoop jobs on EC2
‣ CloudFront
Content Delivery Network
‣ ELB = Elastic Load Balancer
‣ EBS = Elastic Block Storage
S3 backed persistent storage
‣ Public Data Sets - Lots of publicly available data
Census ( 1980 , 1990, 2000 ), Wikipedia logs, Freebase
dumps, Genetic and Chemistry data
 Starting Up

• Amazon Account
• Credentials KeyID : SecretKey
• X509 Ceriticate
 Helpful Tools

• S3 Fox - Firefox extension for browsing S3

• Elastic Fox - Firefox extension for operating EC2
• Transmit - Mac utility for S3 ($)
• Right Scale - Web based platform for managing
everything ( Free / $ )
 Libraries

• Official Amazon Libraries (Java)

• Unofficial Libraries - .Net / Ruby / Perl
• AWS4C - C/C++/Objective C
• Boto - Very popular Python library (official
Hadoop/EC2 library)
Demo
 Demo
Running Hadoop on EC2
Questions

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