Urbanesia - Open Source & Microsoft
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Urbanesia transitioned their backend from PHP/MySQL to .NET and SQL Server with Microsoft's help. This improved performance, allowing queries to complete in insignificant warm boot times and increasing scalability. It also improved productivity by 33% and reduced development time. The benefits included implementing best practices, focusing more on their product, and having a more structured approach to build business intelligence solutions. They found that combining Microsoft's powerful backend technologies and open source's frontend technologies resulted in happy developers and a focus on their business.
Urbanesia - Open Source & Microsoft
- 1. Urbanesia & Microsoft Technologies SQL on PHP @ Microsoft Batista Harahap @tista / bango29.com 7 July 2012
- 7. DESIRED AIMS What Urbanesia wants
- 8. RELEVANCY & CONTEXT
- 9. TECHNICAL OVERVIEW Where do we come from and where we want to be in the future
- 11. Technologies • CentOS Linux • MySQL • Sphinx Search • CodeIgniter (PHP) • Memcache
- 12. Caveats • 20+ Seconds Queries in warm boots • Low concurrency • MySQL Query Performance • Horizontal scalability (Expensive) • Memory, CPU & Disk hungry • No separation of frontend & backend apps
- 13. What to do?
- 14. Application & Database Server Separation
- 15. What we did • Recoded 60% of Urbanesia • Initial process took ~1 month • Query hunting to optimize MySQL queries • Slimmed down to 18 controllers & 800 lines of core controller • Separated database & application • Built a comprehensive API for our backend
- 16. What we got • Increased concurrency • Insignificant warm boot time • 1 month turned to 1 year to 2 years to … • A codebase that is difficult to maintain • Slow learning curves for new recruits • Lack of focus infrastructure wise
- 17. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES What changed our perspective towards technology platforms
- 18. Challenges • Urbanesia have no prior Microsoft experience • Design Patterns • Best Practices • Choosing which technology • TCO and other expenses
- 19. Microsoft Open • Open Source technologies on top of Microsoft platform • Hands on consultation with trusted advisor from Infinys Cloud with Dondy Bappedyanto • Introduced to .NET and SQL Server
- 20. Solution • Complete backend redesign & development using .NET 4.0 with WebAPI • Abstract layers within the design to support potential migration to SQL Server • Instead of CRUD cache invalidations, we implemented monitors
- 21. Solution
- 22. BENEFITS What do we get from this?
- 23. Benefits • 33% productivity increase translating to only 2 months development time for our backend • More time to focus on the product itself • Implementing best practices from day 0 • More structured approach to finally build BI solutions • Invest more in memories, way cheaper than servers
- 24. CLOSING REMARKS Our experiences combining the best of both worlds
- 25. Closing Remarks • Microsoft’s backend technology is unmatched, especially the IDE (Visual Studio) is really powerful • Open Source’s frontend technology is unmatched in terms of new tech adoption, developer awareness and community support • Both combines into happy developers, product focus and business as usual