Scalable Cloud Ops with Fugue

Chapter 8Configuration and Coordination in Fugue: Vars

Throughout our story, the Refuge organization and its namesake application have grown. Each step of the way, we’ve deployed more robust versions of the application in the cloud with Fugue. You’ve coded its infrastructure in Ludwig—Fugue’s simple but powerful language interface—increasing your expertise as you’ve added common, real-world services to the system in development and production.

Refuge, like most systems, maybe like the one you’re working with in daily life, will experience growing pains and challenges as it scales from its first hundred to its first hundred thousand users. Some of these problems are purely application-level issues: How do we make sure the login system is secure? ...