Mybanjir.com War Stories

Just before 2014 ends, Malaysia was hit by the biggest flood in the history. Thousands of people are trapped in rural area, losing contact with their families and friends in town. On the other hand, folks in cities are unable to contact them. Mybanjir is a community initiative that aims to provide real time information that helps users to obtain data, and use this information to assist them in delivering rations and rescue jobs.

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1. Mybanjir.com 
 War Story Dr. Lau Cher Han Director, MaGIC Academy.
2. About myself • Director, MaGIC Academy. • Generalist, Big Data Scientist, Hacker. • 20 years Microsoft users, qBasic, VB6, .NET 1.0 to Azure. • Ruby, Python, JS etc.
3. What is MyBanjir? • Community driven website. • Provide real-time information for non-victims. • Provide assistance to rescue teams Using technology to solve real problems
4. Main Components • Front-end • Mobile responsive page • Admin page • Android Mobile App • Back-end • Web server • Database • Crawler First version delivered within 24 hours.
5. Traffic
6. Technical Challenges • Multiple frameworks working together. • Multiple data sources. • Fast delivery and iterations.
7. Technology Used • Stacks, Frameworks, Programming Languages • ASP .NET (Backend) • C# (Twitter Crawler, damn OAUTH) • Ruby on Rails (News crawler) • Python Django (News Crawler) • Php (JKR, Weather, Road close crawler) • AngularJS (front-end) • Bootstrap (front-end) • NodeJS (didn’t go live in the end) • Database • Microsoft SQL (Relational Data) • Azure Storage (Images) • Communication Tools • Slack
8. Solution • Not too hard sell, but Azure helps. (and Bizspark) • Started with Digital Ocean, Linode, Heroku, AppSpot. • Setup multiple VMs • Azure SQL • Azure Storage
9. How would I do it differently, if I were to do it again today?
10. Lessons Learnt • Different languages can live harmony on one server. • If you aims to become a devop, aim for T-Shape understanding • Jack of all trade, master of one (or two, or some) • Move fast, breaks nothing.
11. Many Thanks
12. MyBanjir Team
13. Questions ?
14. Commercial Time
15. Information • Promo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=PBcnu4wJctY • Website - http://map.mymagic.my/asean/
16. Questions ?