This document discusses using DevOps practices like Chef to automate server configuration, deployment, scaling, and healing. It provides an example of using Chef cookbooks to configure a Memcached server. It also describes how a company called Peritor uses tools like Chef and Amazon EC2 to automate management of a social networking site called Monster World, which sees peak loads of 130 servers and 240,000 requests per minute. The document encourages trying out automation tools from Scalarium.
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