Webscale Tips

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1. think. create. engage. optimise. Webscaling Tips Craig Raw, CTO Quirk

2. think. create. engage. optimise. What is webscale?

3. think. create. engage. optimise.

4. think. create. engage. optimise. • Users / Accounts • Throughput

   • Servers • Team • Features

5. think. create. engage. optimise. • Highly available • Transparent •

   High performance • Scalable • Accessible • Secure • Usable • Inexpensive

6. think. create. engage. optimise. My tips

7. think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #1 Sometimes, programming language is

   important

8. think. create. engage. optimise. Safe • Java • C# Trial

   • Ruby • Groovy Caution • PHP • Perl

9. think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #2 Evaluate your persistence

10. think. create. engage. optimise. • SQL queries • Sharding •

    NoSQL • Database clustering • Caching • Automated schema migration

11. think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #3 Scale out, not up

12. think. create. engage. optimise. • Consider the full roundtrip •

    Clustering or stickiness for sessions • Automated schema deployment • Load balancing through the stack • Prepare for failures

13. think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #4 Use the cloud (wisely)

14. think. create. engage. optimise. • Often not cheaper • Beware

    I/O performance • Beware many golden images • Consider Infrastructure-as-Code tools • Evaluate security • What about creating your own cloud?

15. think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #5 Scaling your team

16. think. create. engage. optimise. • DevOps • Agile • Getting

    everyone in the same room • Hiring giants • Unit and Functional Tests

17. think. create. engage. optimise. Questions? Twitter: @craigraw Email: [email protected]