Ian White, CTO and Co-Founder, Sailthru
December 4 2012
For nearly two years, Sailthru ran our entire MongoDB deployment on Amazon EC2, serving terabytes of data and processing thousands. We had a number of successes and a number of challenges, and ultimately decided to move our primaries to a physical hardware. I'll reflect on the move and the pros and cons of both cloud and metal, from hard experience.