hmm.., now you are mixing Stratos and Load Balancer. :( Stratos obviously
has auto-scaling capability via Auto-scaler but Load Balancer does not. Our
Load balancer cannot scale itself without Auto-scaler.

Hence, you can call LB as ELB, only if we put LB + Auto-scaler together,
IMO.


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Nirmal Fernando 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> OK if everyone votes LB. Yes, it may also help understanding the
>>> concepts separately to someone.
>>>
>>> But i think we have not got the point correctly here.
>>>
>>> Elastic load balancing does not mean that "it scales the PaaS".
>>> It means "the load balancing capability is elastic".
>>>
>>> So we may not rename LB, but we can say that we do have "Elastic Load
>>> Balancing" in Stratos.
>>>
>>
>> I don't agree... Did you read the caption (from your reference) I've sent
>> in my other email?
>>
>
> *Elastic Load Balancing automatically scales its request handling capacity
> to meet the demands of application traffic. *
>
> If you read this carefully, it says about "scaling of request handling
> capacity". Stratos has this capability.
>
> *Additionally, Elastic Load Balancing offers integration with Auto Scaling
> to ensure that you have back-end capacity to meet varying levels of traffic
> levels without requiring manual intervention. *
>
> Here it says "*Elastic Load Balancing offers integration with Auto
> Scaling" .* Means, Autoscaling is a separate task, but with integration
> with Autoscaling, it ensures the back-end capability to meet varying level
> of traffic.
>
> Stratos has this capability too.
>
> Do you agree?
>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also agree. I think when we consider the load balancer as a
>>>> stand-alone product it does not handle elasticity. Therefore the better
>>>> term would be LB.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana 
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> my vote also for LB, its only doing load balancing, auto scaler mainly
>>>>> care of elasticity.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Nirmal Fernando <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not really :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Elastic
>>>>>>  Elastic Load Balancing automatically scales its request handling
>>>>>> capacity to meet the demands of application traffic. Additionally, 
>>>>>> Elastic
>>>>>> Load Balancing offers integration with Auto Scaling to ensure that you 
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> back-end capacity to meet varying levels of traffic levels without
>>>>>> requiring manual intervention.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $subject. Came across [1]. IMO we should rename our LB to ELB.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Lahiru Sandaruwan
>>>>>>> Software Engineer,
>>>>>>> Platform Technologies,
>>>>>>> WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com
>>>>>>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> email: [email protected] cell: (+94) 773 325 954
>>>>>>> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/lahirus
>>>>>>> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Nirmal
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nirmal Fernando.
>>>>>> PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos,
>>>>>> Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Lakmal Warusawithana
>>>>> Software Architect; WSO2 Inc.
>>>>> Mobile : +94714289692
>>>>> Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Lahiru Sandaruwan
>>> Software Engineer,
>>> Platform Technologies,
>>> WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com
>>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>>
>>> email: [email protected] cell: (+94) 773 325 954
>>> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/
>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/lahirus
>>> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Nirmal
>>
>> Nirmal Fernando.
>> PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos,
>> Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
>>
>> Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Lahiru Sandaruwan
> Software Engineer,
> Platform Technologies,
> WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com
> lean.enterprise.middleware
>
> email: [email protected] cell: (+94) 773 325 954
> blog: http://lahiruwrites.blogspot.com/
> twitter: http://twitter.com/lahirus
> linked-in: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/lahiru-sandaruwan/16/153/146
>
>


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Best Regards,
Nirmal

Nirmal Fernando.
PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos,
Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.

Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/

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