EasyBib & Cloudant - Speaker Deck

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www.easybib.com [email protected] EasyBib and Cloudant True story, bro. 1 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com @klimpong Till Klampäckel I live here (the next room is our ofﬁce) @klimpong — http://github.com/till /Till 2 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /EasyBib EasyBib is an information literacy platform 40 million students use EasyBib every year. Over 1000 institutions subscribe, including 100 large US universities and 900 high schools and districts. 3 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /EasyBib/tech Nginx & PHP MySQL CouchDB Redis Node Open source: github.com/easybib 4 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /EasyBib/tech Nginx & PHP MySQL Cloudant Redis Node Open source: github.com/easybib 5 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /CouchDB 6 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /CouchDB/time-to-relax 7 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /prototype • The year: 2008 • Search by ISBN number. • Found a free ISBN database. (with a couple million records) • Running CouchDB 0.8 (incubating) in prod. 8 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /prototype/huge-success • It’s schema-less. • HTTP — easy to grasp. • Never lost any data (not that it mattered). 9 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /all/in • Transition citations & projects. • User-related still in SQL. 10 Friday, January 25, 13

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What could possibly go wrong? 11 Friday, January 25, 13

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Not so much! 12 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /obstacles • updating CouchDB • multiple servers (wat) • EBS 13 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant • To be able to scale. • To stay close to CouchDB. 14 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2010 • Dataset: 80 GB • The ﬁrst migration to a shared cluster. 15 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2010/lesson multi-tenancy is hard 16 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2011 dedicated cluster 17 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2011/Q4 • Dataset: ~180 GB • Migrated to a dedicated cluster on Rackspace. 18 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2012 • Lots of new people. • The released of new products. 19 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /Cloudant/2013 • Dataset: ~450 GB • We doubled capacity. • We became customers. 20 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /retrospect • Happy database, happy customers! • We focused on products. :) 21 Friday, January 25, 13

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www.easybib.com [email protected] /ﬁn We have an awesome team doing amazing things in New York and Berlin. We’d like you to join us. 22 Friday, January 25, 13