10. Next Steps

Now that you understand the basics of how AMPS works, you have two potential paths forward in your usage of the product:

• On one path, you may want to learn how to configure, deploy, and administer your own instance of AMPS. For this path, see the User Guide, which provides complete information for system administrators who are responsible for the deployment, availability and management of data to other users.
• Alternatively, you may need to develop an application to work with AMPS, using one of the Developer Guides for Java, Python, C++, or C#. For this path, visit the developer page at https://www.crankuptheamps.com/develop/ to download one of the evaluation kits.

The following sections provide more information about each of these paths and also briefly describe some use cases for AMPS.

Operation and Deployment

In preparing to deploy your instance of AMPS, you must size your host environment according to multiple dimensions: memory, storage, CPU, and network. The Operation and Deployment chapter in the AMPS User Guide provides guidelines and best practices for configuring the host environment. The chapter also specifies recommended settings for running AMPS on a Linux operating system.

When preparing to deploy AMPS, consult the Deployment Checklist whitepaper, available on the 60East website.

Advice on preparing to deploy AMPS in production is available under your support agreement from http://support.crankuptheamps.com. 60East provides review of configuration and application architecture on demand, and new deployments are especially encouraged to take advantage of this review.

Application Development

Each language-specific Development Guide explains how to install, configure, and develop applications that use AMPS. In order to develop applications using an AMPS client, you must understand the basic concepts of AMPS, such as topics, subscriptions, messages and SOW.

You will also need an installed and running AMPS server to use the product. Although you can type and compile programs that use AMPS without a running server, you will get the most benefit by running the programs against a working server. Visit the 60East website at http://www.crankuptheamps.com/evaluate for an evaluation version of AMPS.