Move fast, don't break things: how we built a solid tech infrastructure

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1. Recently, our team discovered the best investment we ever made in our tech infrastructure. It solved so many problems, saves us a fortune in costs and made us infinitely scalable. This is the story of how we got there. Geeks on a Beach August 20, 2015
3. Let’s talk about how we actually move fast and break things. Many, many things.
4. @rstacruz Hello, my name is Rico Sta. Cruz. Rico Sta. Cruz
5. .htaccess index.php app/
7. .htaccess index.php index.php.bak index.php.bak2 index.php.bak3 index.php.bak20110820 app/ app2/ app3/ I don’t know about you, but this was never any fun.
8. bundle exec cap production deploy Deployment using Capistrano (Ruby).
10. Maybe you're wondering what's wrong with Capistrano. Doesn't it do the job? Yes, it does, and yes, it's great, but it's also terribly slow. https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/articles/faster-web-application-deployments-using-mina-instead-of-capistrano infinum.co “
14. changelog.com
21. Ticketbase is an event ticketing platform we built. ticketbase.com
22. Built by Mashup Garage. mashupgarage.com
26. Do you want to build a web app? I want to build a web app.
27. Database Spawn a PostgreSQL RDS instance Set up slave/master replication Servers Spawn a new Linux instance on EC2 Provision Provision a new server using Ansible Deployment Deploy your application using Capistrano Cache Set up Redis via AWS ElasticCache VPC Set up a VPC network Make the correct subnets inside it Set up security roles for subnet Storage Set up storage via S3 Make it available across the world via CDN …and so on Do you want to build a web app? I want to build a web app.
28. Your infrastructure is sacred and immutable. You have to build it right from the beginning. MYTH
31. Your code
32. Your code in a Git repository
34. The magical cloud computers in the ephemeral sky
36. git push Success! Your application is now ready. See it now in http://ticketbase.com
38. What is the magical cloud?
42. Horizontally scalable Automatic scaling Fast deployments Create new sites easily Set up test environments (staging) Cheaper than PaaS’s (like Heroku)