Scaling beyond code

Choosing the right stack for growth.

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1. B E AT R O O T. C O M Scaling beyond code Choosing the right stack for growth. CHRIS GARRETT – PRODUCT DIRECTOR
2. B E AT R O O T. C O M What exactly is Beatroot?
3. B E AT R O O T. C O M Beatroot is a music discovery platform We analyse music and make it searchable.
4. B E AT R O O T. C O M It’s an API… Processing, Presenting & On-demand Transcoding.
5. B E AT R O O T. C O M We also provide curation tools for sync and publishing companies.
6. B E AT R O O T. C O M Moving from 180k to 20m, to 100m tracks Our platform needs to be horizontally scalable, right across the stack.
7. B E AT R O O T. C O M PGSQL, Redis, Solr, DMG… These are the foundations.
8. B E AT R O O T. C O M Scaling at Speed We need to be able to rapidly add new servers in an automated way.
9. B E AT R O O T. C O M We need to be able to scale the team Beautiful code needs people to write it.
10. B E AT R O O T. C O M Ruby vs PHP vs JS Shut up fanboy…
11. B E AT R O O T. C O M Get some insight!
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15. B E AT R O O T. C O M PGSQL, Resque, Sunspot, Rails Data collated, indexed and ready for searching within an afternoon.
16. B E AT R O O T. C O M Tangible Results
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18. B E AT R O O T. C O M Full spread of developers 52 languages used by 844 developers
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20. B E AT R O O T. C O M Top 5 languages Number of developers with at least one repository using the language Java Python PHP Ruby JS
21. B E AT R O O T. C O M Node.JS is a Moon A proportional representation of Node.js vs all other JS.
22. B E AT R O O T. C O M Ruby wins out.
23. B E AT R O O T. C O M “JFBI :)” MARTYN DAVIES — 2014
24. B E AT R O O T. C O M We’d tackled Search. A scalable implementation of a Solr index.
25. B E AT R O O T. C O M We’d setup and leveraged a job queue. A Redis based implementation of an asynchronous job queue with Resque.
26. B E AT R O O T. C O M Existing deployment automation. Wealth of existing Sprinkle and Chef libraries for all our dependencies.
27. B E AT R O O T. C O M A start-up within a start-up. We’d created a product to aid the recruitment process of any development team.
28. B E AT R O O T. C O M Recruitment’s always going to be hard.
29. B E AT R O O T. C O M Choose a stack that suits you now. The beauty of code is that it can be deleted.
30. B E AT R O O T. C O M We’re hiring, hello@beatroot.com Or just say hi.