Rapidly Building and Deploying Scalable Web Architectures
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The document provides an overview of how Keith Fitzgerald and his team of 4 developers were able to rapidly build and deploy the scalable web product TicketLeap using various cloud technologies. It discusses how they used Git for source control and bug tracking, Continuous Integration for testing, Trello for backlog management, Heroku for hosting, PostgreSQL/MongoDB for persistence, S3 and CloudFront for static assets, and common frameworks like Rails, Django, and Node. It emphasizes that architectures can scale rather than specific technologies, and that launching a product that can scale from the start allows a team to iterate quickly.
Rapidly Building and Deploying Scalable Web Architectures
- 1. Rapidly Building & Deploying Scalable Web Products Keith Fitzgerald 2001 University of Scranton CTO TicketLeap.com @ghostrocket
- 2. Quick History 2001-2006: Primarily Java Development for DoD. RIA Development in JS/HTML/CSS/Flash 2006-2009: Mixed Language Development. Java & .NET. Architected Production Stack for NFL.com Team Web Properties 2009-Present: Technical Lead on TicketLeap.com. Python/Django running on AWS. Featured in AWS Case Study and various PR efforts.
- 3. Goal of this Talk Architectures Scale, not Prorgramming Languages/Frameworks. Scale slides both ways. We can run a replica of the TicketLeap stack at $100/mo. Launching a product that can scale upon traction has never been easier. Whoever iterates the fastest wins.
- 4. what does this do for me now?
- 5. TicketLeap Story Team of 4 Developers and 1 QA vs our competitors teams of 40+ devs. Hobby projects gave me the knowledge/comfort to roll this architecture. We don’t own a single server (everything hosted) Spent the time upfront to standup a Continuous Deployment system and process. Major releases every month and minor releases a few times a week. Can scale on demand or automatically.
- 7. Source Control / Bug Tracking What is Git? http://github.com offers hosted revision control, bug tracking, wikis, and a great workflow for integrating/patching open source libraries. Pricing Starts at $7/mo. Free for open source projects.
- 8. Continuous Integration What is Continuous Integration? http://integrityapp.com/ Cost $0 (open source and can be hosted for free.)
- 10. Heroku Think of Heroku as Cloud Middleware. Great place to get started without having to deal with the complexities of AWS EC2. Easy integration with Git/GitHub. Dead Simple Deployment/Scaling Cost $0 for prototypes, $15/mo per background worker
- 11. Persistence PostGres/MySQL -> available via Heroku or AWS NoSQL -> many products/providers. MongoHQ for MongoDB, Cloudant for Couchdb, Cassandra.IO for Cassandra, etc $20-$60/mo
- 12. S3/CloudFront Never ever ever serve static files out of your application S3 is priced at $0.125/mo per GB CloudFront is $0.0075 per 10k HTTP/S requests
- 14. Scaling Databases can be sized vertically with a few commands. Partitioning schemes or horizontal scaling techniques are up to you. Dynos/Workers on heroku are one command. No Vendor lock in with Heroku. Easy drop into AWS, Joyent, or your own servers
- 15. Demo
- 17. Questions?