Intridea - Leaders in Agile Software Development

Intridea is officially open-sourcing Scalr - a redundant, self-curing, and self-scaling hosting environment build on top of Amazon's EC2.

Scalr utilizes EC2 to provide a multi-tiered hosting environment with pre-built images for load balancers, database servers, and application servers. Designed with flexibility in mind, users can further customize each type of machine to use as nodes in their server farm or customize a generic base image for any number of purposes. The application monitors and maintains the server farm by reconfiguring the entire cluster when machines fail or when new machines are inserted. Additionally Scalr can be setup to replace failed machines and scale up and down based on user configured thresholds. The application provides a simple web-based interface for configuring and monitoring your server farms.

The system was initially designed for MediaPlug, a white label audio, video, and image transcoding service that needed to scale based on customer demand.

The project can be found at http://scalr.intridea.com

The project is still very young, but we're hoping that by open sourcing it the AWS development community can turn this into a robust hosting platform and give users an alternative to the current fee based services available.

Intridea is excited to participate in the AWS Start-Up Challenge.

We've entered three of our applications:

Scalr is a self-curing and auto-scaling environment built on EC2 and S3. Scalr makes it dead simple to create, configure, and maintain a custom server farm for your application that's fully redundant, self-curing and scales automatically based on load averages.

MediaPlug allows site operators, developers, and entrepreneurs to add images, audio and video to their websites at a fraction of the cost. It's a white-label plug-and-play solution that provides image, audio and video transcoding to dozens of popular formats.

SocNet is an extensible and fully customizable full-featured white-label social networking platform.

All three products will officially be beta launched November 5.