Breaking social dependency
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Leon Fayer, a vice president at Omniti with over 20 years in development and operations, discusses the impacts of social media on large systems. He shares a case study of a media website that faced significant challenges and outages when relying on Facebook Connect for authentication. Fayer emphasizes the importance of creating fallback plans and not using social networks in critical paths to mitigate risks.
Breaking social dependency
- 1. Breaking Social Dependency Leon Fayer @papa_fire
- 2. Who am I ? • 20+ years of development and operations of large systems • currently Vice President at OmniTI • can be found online: • @papa_fire • http://fayerplay.com • github:lfayer
- 3. Why talk about it? “FAILURE IS SUCCESS IF WE LEARN FROM IT” Malcolm S. Forbes
- 5. Definitions SOCIAL NETWORK = THIRD PARTY SERVICE
- 6. Benefits channels to quickly reach millions of people ability to leverage someone else’s work cost/time to market
- 7. Drawbacks SOCIAL NETWORK = THIRD PARTY SERVICE || NO CONTROL
- 8. And now for real example :case study:
- 9. Setting the stage • large entertainment media website • continuous content updates (images/articles/videos) • event driven visits; up to 10x normal traffic • ecommerce component
- 10. The decision “let’s use Facebook Connect as auth”
- 11. Problem? Implementing Facebook Connect 200ms -> 800ms
- 12. Suddenly
- 13. Problem Facebook Down “infinite” spike -> 0ms
- 14. Tips 3. Create a fallback plan 1. Only connect to social networks when needed 2. Don’t use social networks in the critical path
- 15. Questions?
- 16. Leon Fayer Twitter: @papa_fire Blog: http://fayerplay.com Github: lfayer