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Elastic{ON} 2018 - Visualizing Content Performance with Elastic at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

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March 01, 2018

Elastic{ON} 2018 - Visualizing Content Performance with Elastic at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Elastic Co

March 01, 2018
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  1. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    February 28th, 2018
    Visualizing Content
    Performance with Elastic
    Sean Bennett & Stefan Piruzevski

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  2. In brief
    We are going to talk about…
    - Some history
    - What brought us here
    - Our challenge

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  3. Who we are
    Stefan Piruzevski Sean Bennett

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  4. A little history

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  5. Our mandate
    ● Distinctly Canadian
    ● Contribute to cultural expression
    ● Shared national consciousness and identity
    ● Meet Canadians where they consume
    content
    ● Reflect the cultural of Canada

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  6. We’re local.

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  7. Like, really local
    ENGINEERING PHOTO FROM
    RESOLUTE BAY

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  8. Which is big!

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  9. Getting our house in order

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  10. What we deliver
    Vertical focused content (News, Comedy, Lifestyle, Sports)

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  11. How do we deliver it?

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  12. We’re a Broadcaster

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  13. The Ask - Where it all started (SP)
    Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  14. Educated guess with rudimentary numbers

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  15. mvn exec:java
    -Dexec.mainClass="ca.cbc.INTERNAL.PATH.util.ReferringContent"
    -Dexec.args="http://:/connection-properties/conn
    ection.properties sysadmin sysadmin output.csv 'inputTemplate:Image
    AND (text:Flickr OR text:Flicker)'"
    Done.
    Documents found: 421 Success: 421 Failed: 0 Referring content ids: 533
    Sample Report!

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  16. CBC’s Infrastructure

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  17. Content Management System

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  18. Owned and Operated

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  19. Owned and Operated

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  20. Owned and Operated

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  21. Owned and Operated

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  22. System map

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  23. System map
    CDN (Cache)
    Internal (Cache)
    CMS (Cache)
    CMS (Disk)
    CMS (DB)

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  24. We looked at:

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  25. We looked at: building a custom solution

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  26. We looked at: logging tools used by our network teams

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  27. We looked at: other vendors and CMS platforms

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  28. We looked at: existing internal tools

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  29. We looked at: creating more JAVA classes

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  30. We looked at:
    The possibility of creating a mirrored
    environment with real-time replication of
    our data so we could query the db in a
    non-audience facing environment.

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  31. We looked at: EVERYTHING

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  32. You said “Banana”!

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  33. BANANAS!
    Query existing Solr indexes
    Graphical UI!!!
    No more manual Solr queries
    We loved it
    Performance vs Flexibility

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  35. Dynamic provisioning
    Not complicated
    Easily incorporate into our CMS

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  37. What are we using

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  38. What are we using
    To Logstash or not to Logstash
    Real-time data with Beats
    Easily add Filebeat into our CMS

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  39. What are we using
    Easy to learn
    Already used in by some teams
    Not directly connected to Production

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  40. What are we using
    Bad Data
    Wiping Everything
    Duplicate Data

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  41. What are we using

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  42. What are we using
    Apply Banana Lessons
    Real-time Dashboards
    Don’t judge us.

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  43. What are we using

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  44. Let’s Assemble!
    ?

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  45. The players
    !

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  47. The Ask - Where it all started (SP)
    Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  48. Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  49. Now what?
    ?

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  50. Capture all the things!

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  51. Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  52. Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  53. Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  54. Number of stories updated per day, per location, per particular time of day

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  65. Rinse, Repeat

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  66. Next level data-driven decision making
    ●Workflow/Process improvements
    ●Identifying opportunities
    ●Giving more accurate performance measurement

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  67. Let’s loop in the audience!

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  68. Thanks!
    Catch us at the AMA booth!
    Stefan Piruzevski Sean Bennett

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