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Transcript

  1. True story of re-architecting website for scale on Windows Azure

  2. 1,3 billion+ web transactions / day 3 datacenters / 300+

    servers

  3. Lithuanian-based startup 20K+ unique visitors per month can go viral

    any day soon

  4. HOSTING WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux

    | Apache | MySQL | PHP Linux | Nginx | FTP

  5. ~260K page views / month ~9K page views / day

    ~1K page views / hour ~0,2 page views / second 20K+ but spikes up-to 50 page views / second

  6. Cloud gives more flexibility and scalability options Windows Azure is

    Microsoft’s Cloud Platform BizSpark gives Windows Azure for free for 1 year Let’s move!

  7. VIRTUAL MACHINE

  8. HOSTING WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux

    | Apache | MySQL | PHP Linux | Nginx | FTP

  9. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux |

    Apache | MySQL | PHP Linux | Nginx | FTP

  10. Dedicated VM for storing content is suboptimal in the cloud

    Manual management & scaling No backups SCALING ISSUE #1

  11. BLOB STORAGE

  12. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux |

    Apache | MySQL | PHP Linux | Nginx | FTP

  13. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux |

    Apache | MySQL | PHP HTTP

  14. Static content on the same VM as website and blog

    Different scalability targets Photos are part of static content SCALING ISSUE #2

  15. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog static content database photos Linux |

    Apache | MySQL | PHP HTTP

  16. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog database static content Linux | Apache

    | MySQL | PHP HTTP

  17. Database on the same VM as website and blog Very

    different scalability targets and strategies SCALING ISSUE #3

  18. WINDOWS AZURE website, blog database static content Linux | Apache

    | MySQL | PHP HTTP

  19. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website,

    blog Linux | Apache | PHP

  20. Blog on the same VM as website Different scalability targets

    SCALING ISSUE #4

  21. WEBSITES

  22. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website,

    blog Linux | Apache | PHP

  23. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website

    Linux | Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP

  24. FURTHER SCALING

  25. Website gets more requests than can handle SCALING ISSUE #5

  26. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website

    Linux | Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP

  27. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website

    Linux | Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP

  28. Database gets more queries than can handle SCALING ISSUE #6

  29. WINDOWS AZURE database static content Linux | MySQL HTTP website

    Linux | Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP

  30. WINDOWS AZURE read-only database static content HTTP website Linux |

    Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP write-only database Linux | MySQL Linux | MySQL

  31. Read-only database gets more queries than can handle SCALING ISSUE

    #7

  32. WINDOWS AZURE read-only database static content HTTP website Linux |

    Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP write-only database Linux | MySQL Linux | MySQL

  33. WINDOWS AZURE read-only database static content HTTP website Linux |

    Apache | PHP blog IIS | PHP write-only database Linux | MySQL Linux | MySQL

  34. Write-only database gets more queries than can handle SCALING ISSUE

    #8

  35. This is a nice issue to have Split write-only database

    into shards with multiple read-only slaves for each shard accessed via layer of distributed cache

  36. DEMO

  37. WINDOWS AZURE database static content SQL Database HTTP blog IIS

    | PHP

  38. WINDOWS AZURE SERVICES

  39. Windows Azure Virtual Machine for VMs Windows Azure Blob Storage

    for static content Windows Azure Website for hosting web site WINDOWS AZURE

  40. Windows Azure Service Bus for messaging Windows Azure Cache Service

    for distributed caching Windows Azure Notification Hubs for push notification Windows Azure HDInsight for big data WINDOWS AZURE

  41. WINDOWS AZURE DATA SERVICES SQL Database Storage HDInsight Cache Backup

    Recovery Manager APP SERVICES Media Services Service Bus Notification Hubs BizTalk Services Active Directory Multi-Factor Auth NETWORK SERVICES Virtual Network Traffic Manager COMPUTE Virtual Machines Web Sites Mobile Services Cloud Services Pricing calculator: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=full
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