As promised earlier in the post on TYPO3, memcache and nginx on amazon EC2, here’s a presentation of a photo database handling plug-in that uses the Amazon S3 service. The plugin we’ve created may be utilized as a foundation for sites using a CDN (Content Distribution Network). Nowadays, even a simple idea may bloom into a powerful service with enormous demands on server capacity and disk space. Thus, it is worth knowing how does the S3 service work and how to use it effectively. The extension is written in accordance with the MVC paradigm, which is going to be a standard for TYPO3 4.3 plug-ins.
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Bartosz Aninowski TYPO3 amazon, api, s3
Amazon Web Service is a set of various services. Their scope is so wide that we couldn’t possibility describe them in a few sentences. My everyday work, however, would not be possible without two of them.
S3 – Simple Storage Service, which I will describe in another article on Content Distribution Networks in TYPO3 CMS.
EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud – used to test various configurations of any implemented solution. In your average conditions it is hard to test the application’s behaviour on e.g. 6 different servers. That takes time – either in the server room or in-house – and always involves costs and wasted time. EC2 allows us to run any number of server units, and the low cost allows us to experiment as much as we need. Read more…
Bartosz Aninowski TYPO3 amazon, AWS, memcache, nginx, TYPO3
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