This week was spent planning and creating our team’s proposal presentation. I contributed by researching the use case requirements of our web application as well as the custom load balancer. I read through research papers on Load Balancing to determine appropriate metrics that can be used to measure the performance of our custom load balancer. These metrics will also be used to define the loss/reward function of our machine learning algorithms. I also read a paper about different implementations of load balancers using different algorithms. This gave me more perspective as to how we should go forward designing our load balancer as well as the multi tiered architecture within which it will exist.
We have been slightly set back as we have not yet received AWS credits which would allow us to create a multi tiered deployment of our web application. We are on track with our schedule for collecting and reading through resources on load balancing and multi tier architectures.
Next week I hope to have started work on creating the video streaming application we will be using to test our load balancing algorithms. I also hope to deploy a sample web app on a multi tier architecture through AWS.