Scalable Cloud Ops with Fugue

Fugue-ing a New Feature: Adding Photo Sharing

Now that we’re properly managing user sessions for our web application, we can focus on adding an important new feature to Refuge. Users will want to share photos on the social network. Residents will want to post photos that express the unique character of their city or country and that show off hot tourist spots or locally known sites of interest. Visitors will want to post photos accompanying questions or comments.

Image Storage

Like our Refuge user sessions, our user uploads should not be stored on individual instances—certainly not on instances that will be scaled automatically. Fortunately, AWS provides us with a scalable, available, and durable web object storage solution called Simple Storage ...