Examples uses for cloud architectures

by mheydt 24. January 2009 03:38 >
  • Processing pipelines
    • Video transcoding
    • Converting large numbers of documents into other formats
    • Image processing used to convert images from one format to another
    • Searching and indexing of large amounts of data
    • Mining of large amounts of data
  • Batch processing systems
    • Various back office applications that needs heavy, but often infrequent batch processing
    • Reporting systems that analyze operational data and deliver reports, often infrequently
    • Software build systems that do nightly builds
    • Software testing systems that execute tests against many different configurations.
  • Websites
    • Sites that can change the number of servers based upon demand (less at night, more during the day)
    • Instant sites needed on demand for specific events
    • Seasonal sites (like taxes or various holidays)
  • Parallel / concurrent processing
    • Financial data correlation, where different systems can work on their own subset of the problem in order to speed processing time
    • Parallel video conversion into multiple bitrates
  • On-demand / scheduled processing
    • Bi-weekly payroll processing
    • Video transcoding during media events

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