Lessons Learned Growing from 1 Million to 13 Million Users in 9 Months

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1. Lessons Learned Growing from 1 Million to 13 Million Users in 9 Months @bdotdub FOUNDER / CTO – TIMEHOP BENNY WONG
3. Things I Wish I Could Tell Year Ago Benny Lessons Learned Growing from 1 Million to 13 Million Users in 9 Months
4. 0 75,000 150,000 225,000 300,000 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May Signups
6. Scaling Checklist ☑ Easy addition of resources:    heroku  ps:scale  web=$WEBSCALE ☑ Application Monitoring
8. 0 75,000 150,000 225,000 300,000 Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March April May Signups
9. 3AM Wake Up Calls, aka PagerDuty
11. API Response Time
12. PagerDuty
13. Self Portrait circa June 2014
14. PagerDuty
15. Scaling is a function of capacity Not just performance
16. Performance x Capacity = SCALE! How fast your app goes How Many Resrources you Need
17. ???
21. Be in the driver’s seat
22. A degraded experience for some is better than no experience for all
23. MICROSERVICES!
24. [makes_sense_to_me.gif]
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28. Don’t overservice-ize …without knowing what you’re getting into
29. Scaling == Scaling Data Store?
30. Know when to pay the Pros™
31. Self-managed
32. 2TB
33. > 130TB
34. • Centralized Logging • Stats • Continuous Integration Server
35. Lessons for Year Ago Benny Scaling is a function of capacity & performance Be in the driver’s seat Don’t overservice-isze* Know when to pay the Pros™
36. Thanks! @bdotdub benny@timehop.com