www.easybib.com [email protected]
EasyBib and Cloudant
True story, bro.
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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
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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.
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/EasyBib/tech
Nginx & PHP
MySQL
CouchDB
Redis
Node
Open source:
github.com/easybib
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/EasyBib/tech
Nginx & PHP
MySQL
Cloudant
Redis
Node
Open source:
github.com/easybib
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/CouchDB/time-to-relax
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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.
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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).
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/all/in
• Transition citations & projects.
• User-related still in SQL.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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/Cloudant/2011/Q4
• Dataset: ~180 GB
• Migrated to a dedicated cluster on Rackspace.
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/Cloudant/2012
• Lots of new people.
• The released of new products.
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/Cloudant/2013
• Dataset: ~450 GB
• We doubled capacity.
• We became customers.
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www.easybib.com [email protected]
/retrospect
• Happy database, happy customers!
• We focused on products. :)
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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.
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