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Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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All of you should know that this was paid with campaign dollars, not government funds. To pretend otherwise is an incredible indictment of our education system and an example of the assault on k-12 civics courses.

We have K-12 civics courses?

We used to at least. I had classes about government every year from 7th to 12th. If we don't anymore, that is very disturbing.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542368 The diagram follows the style of the AWS Reference Architectures[0]. I have yet to find a published set of diagram components that compare well to that style. Edit: Juan Domenech[1] has a small custom made component pallet in png form. And, it looks like the original diagrams are custom Adobe Illustrator drawings[2]. [0] http://aws.amazon.com/architect…

Kind of wish GAE to have some sort of whitepaper, reference architecture, best practices/patterns as well.

Oh well, I guess GAE is for toy project ahem.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Harper Reed and Scott VanDenPlas did a talk / Q&A at the Chicago AWS meetup group a few months ago. My hazy recollection of the salient points of the talk: 1) This represents a heterogenous set of services where the engineers in charge of each service were more-or-less free to use whatever technology stack they were most comfortable with. 2) Use puppet for provisioning everything. (There is some subtlety Scott went i…

Kinda odd saying that it has an expiration date. Aren't the same systems required for the next election?

With 3 and a bit years of downtime to sort out the crud and weirdness between uses.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Harper Reed and Scott VanDenPlas did a talk / Q&A at the Chicago AWS meetup group a few months ago. My hazy recollection of the salient points of the talk: 1) This represents a heterogenous set of services where the engineers in charge of each service were more-or-less free to use whatever technology stack they were most comfortable with. 2) Use puppet for provisioning everything. (There is some subtlety Scott went i…

Kinda odd saying that it has an expiration date. Aren't the same systems required for the next election?

Obama For America, Inc. is an actual not for profit corporation[1], and will likely be wound down before the next election. The long term election-to-election databases and such are all ran by the DNC Services Corporation.

1. http://www.corporationwiki.com/Illinois/Chicago/obama-for-am...

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Wish this had a legend. Obviously the box sizes and positioning mean something. What I can see makes me a bit curious. - Frontend Web boxes are "big", where the (some) of the backend App boxes are small. I'd have though it would be the reverse -- frontend horizontally scaled first, backend vertically scaled first. - Sometimes they use Zones ABC, sometimes AB. This is cool, but a lot of the "front" infrastructure is A…

I remember reading somewhere that they were using Akamai as their CDN provider (at least for their donation page).

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Please tell me that you weren't educated in the United States. I can't understand how else someone could misunderstand such a fundamental concept of our election process.

Ah, yes, because somehow wasting all that money on an election campaign is okay so long as it is voluntary taxation. Then I remember that this is the same group of intellectuals that voted up "Star Trek-like computer with voice interface" (a 15 line mashup that is neither a computer, nor Star Trek-like) to the top of HN. God bless America.

Also the same group that created Y Combinator, Hacker News, and the Internet. If you don't like it, you can see yourself out.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Harper Reed and Scott VanDenPlas did a talk / Q&A at the Chicago AWS meetup group a few months ago. My hazy recollection of the salient points of the talk: 1) This represents a heterogenous set of services where the engineers in charge of each service were more-or-less free to use whatever technology stack they were most comfortable with. 2) Use puppet for provisioning everything. (There is some subtlety Scott went i…

Kinda odd saying that it has an expiration date. Aren't the same systems required for the next election?

I was at a talk by Rayid Ghani, the chief scientist for the Obama campaign. He said that they shut down everything after the campaign simply because they can't afford to keep on all the staff full-time for the 4 years, but they don't throw away the code.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, yes, because somehow wasting all that money on an election campaign is okay so long as it is voluntary taxation. Then I remember that this is the same group of intellectuals that voted up "Star Trek-like computer with voice interface" (a 15 line mashup that is neither a computer, nor Star Trek-like) to the top of HN. God bless America.

Also the same group that created Y Combinator, Hacker News, and the Internet. If you don't like it, you can see yourself out.

We created the Internet?
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