What powers Etsy
It's very cool to see these kinds of posts. I always learn something from them and it's always neat to see what others have built to deal with a specific problem.<p>I wonder in this case why, if any specific reason Etsy is not utilizing virtualization of one kind or another? Basically they're building dumb-boxes that seem a much better fit to have a good number of slightly beefier VM systems and just rebuild bad instances from images (this would be especially good since they're already utilizing Chef).<p>I know that as an e-commerce firm this has helped us substantially to move toward this kind of a structure.