Webscale Tips - Speaker Deck

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think. create. engage. optimise. Webscaling Tips Craig Raw, CTO Quirk

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think. create. engage. optimise. What is webscale?

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think. create. engage. optimise.

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think. create. engage. optimise. • Users / Accounts • Throughput • Servers • Team • Features

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think. create. engage. optimise. • Highly available • Transparent • High performance • Scalable • Accessible • Secure • Usable • Inexpensive

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think. create. engage. optimise. My tips

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think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #1 Sometimes, programming language is important

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think. create. engage. optimise. Safe • Java • C# Trial • Ruby • Groovy Caution • PHP • Perl

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think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #2 Evaluate your persistence

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think. create. engage. optimise. • SQL queries • Sharding • NoSQL • Database clustering • Caching • Automated schema migration

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think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #3 Scale out, not up

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think. create. engage. optimise. • Consider the full roundtrip • Clustering or stickiness for sessions • Automated schema deployment • Load balancing through the stack • Prepare for failures

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think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #4 Use the cloud (wisely)

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think. create. engage. optimise. • Often not cheaper • Beware I/O performance • Beware many golden images • Consider Infrastructure-as-Code tools • Evaluate security • What about creating your own cloud?

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think. create. engage. optimise. Tip #5 Scaling your team

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think. create. engage. optimise. • DevOps • Agile • Getting everyone in the same room • Hiring giants • Unit and Functional Tests

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think. create. engage. optimise. Questions? Twitter: @craigraw Email: craig@quirk.biz