What techniques do you use to design and scale a web app horizontally (in EC2)?

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Published on 2010-04-10T23:21:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 23:23 UTC
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glusterfs

Specifically I'm looking for techniques for scaling a web application which has no central database server, in the cloud, but general advice is great.

I have come across GlusterFS, which looks great, but I'm not yet clear how it fits into the architecture of a web application. This also is interesting to me.

Thanks for the advice and links.

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