Kwaai Oak CTO, Reza Rassool, was the keynote speaker in a session at the DCIA Cloud Computing West 2013 in Las Vegas on Monday October 28, 2013 where he presented research into the technical and economic challenges of handling spike events in cloud platforms. He shared findings on the underlying impediments facing cloud-based sites to scale both rapidly and economically and unveiled a new approach, called HyperElasticity™, to overcome these impediments.
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1. * Handling Spike Events Reza Rassool, CTO Kwaai Oak
2. * Kwaai Oak212/13/2013 3. SunMonMINSatKwaai OakTueWedThuFri*
312/13/2013 4. Recovered revenue (x$100) Lost revenue (x$100)
Servers ROI% (x100) Page load time (s) Bounce Rate% (x10) Traffic
(100s)8.007.006.005.004.003.002.001.000.00 0Kwaai Oak1234*5678910
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23Hour of the day412/13/2013 5.
* Kwaai Oak512/13/2013 6. Standard cloud elasticity can cope with
slowly* varying loads But what about unexpected spikes?* Kwaai
Oak612/13/2013 7. 300.00* Linux bootlatency results in lost
revenue250.00 Total Traffic (x100) Servers200.00* Cloud
billingBounce rate %unfairly pads charges long after the spike is
over.Cloud Cost150.00100.00Not to
scale50.00500550600650700750800Linux Boot time 15mins Kwaai
Oak712/13/2013 8. * Faster booting nodes see GCE * Sub hour billing
* Google GCE (10 min) * MS Azure (1 min)* Kwaai Oak812/13/2013 9. *
Kwaai Oak912/13/2013 10. * Faster boots * Sub-hour billing * Also *
Timely feedback metrics* User centric performance metrics * Load
test (SOASTA) * Dont be afraid to compute ROI * Lost revenue *
Recovered revenue* Kwaai Oak1012/13/2013
