[samstave]

Elbs are one of the known biggest weaknesses of aws...

Their whole position on them is super opaque and prewarming is still an issue.

I'll write more about this later, but so many people have had outages due to aws' inability to properly size these things.

[devNoise]

I went to a meetup about 2 years ago and one of the engineers from CloudMine gave a talk about load balancing on AWS. CloudMine ended up dumping ELB for HAProxy to handle their scaling needs.

[morenoh149]

how does HAProxy compare to OpsWorks? the HAProxy wikipedia page mentions OpsWorks is based on it