Can you trust Cloud Foundry to Save a Life? To Save 10,000?

The brief: "Never be limited by technology". The result: They haven’t.

Comic Relief, a UK-based charity, run the wildly successful brand Red Nose Day; It consists of 7 hours of primetime live TV, generating in the region of 26 million viewers on BBC 1. Last year their total fundraised was over a billion UK pounds (£1,047,083,706)
Since 2012, Armakuni have been using Cloud Foundry to deliver the global payments platform that handles the credit card transactions generated through web and call centre traffic. It’s built to handle up to 400 payments per second, 800,000 in total through the night.

Cloud Foundry is key not only to the development practices that enable the success of the platform through automated testing and continuous delivery, but vitally the scalability and resiliency models that deliver confidence in a solution where feedback cycles are a luxury we just don’t have.

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2. , , £1, has raised over
3. 90% of annual public donations during a 7 hour window, once a year 90%
4. HELP! Tiny budget No 2nd chance No operational usage Operates at significant scale Brand Confidence & Reliability
5. @armakuni_uk Tim Savage
6. What are the requirements?
8. 100,000 Concurrent Web Donors
9. 14,000 call centre operators
10. Peaky Traffic Profile
11. Key performance metrics up to 400 donations per second up to 800,000 donations in total 7 hour window, ONCE a year with no 2nd chance
12. Our Solution
13. Internet DNS US EAST COAST Cloud Foundry (BOSH/ EC2) Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers =
14. Internet DNS US EAST COAST Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) DUBLIN Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) Service Layer Workers Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers LONDON Cloud Foundry (BOSH/VMWare) Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers Presentation Layer
15. 2 1 3 (in no particular order)
16. LONDON Insight Layer Internet DNS US EAST COAST Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) DUBLIN Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) Service Layer Workers View API Insight Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers MGMT LONDON Cloud Foundry (BOSH/VMWare) Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers Shared Services Logging Metrics Alerting = + Postcodes Presentation Layer
17. Card Details Stored Success Email Export Data Payment Taken $
18. LONDON Insight Layer Internet DNS US EAST COAST Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) DUBLIN Cloud Foundry (BOSH/EC2) Service Layer Workers View API Insight Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers MGMT LONDON Cloud Foundry (BOSH/VMWare) Presentation Layer Service Layer Workers Shared Services Logging Metrics Alerting = + Postcodes Presentation Layer
19. Pipeline Concourse
20. Load testing
22. The Cloud Foundry Contract
23. Cloud Orchestration Application Lifecycle Scaling Portability = cf login {provider 1} = cf push {app} = cf scale {app} -i 100 = cf login {provider 2}
24. The Cloud Foundry Contract Horizontal Scalability
25. The Cloud Foundry Contract Horizontal Scalability Pipelines are easy
26. The Cloud Foundry Contract Horizontal Scalability Pipelines are easy Resourcing
27. The Cloud Foundry Contract Horizontal Scalability Pipelines are easy Resourcing Portability
28. Internet DNS
29. Internet DNS
30. The Cloud Foundry Contract Horizontal Scalability Pipelines are easy Resourcing Portability Truly agile
31. Can you trust Cloud Foundry to save a life? to save 10,000?
32. @armakuni_uk