EasyBib & Cloudant

Cloudant from a customer perspective.

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1. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   EasyBib and Cloudant
   True story, bro.
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2. 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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3. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /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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4. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /EasyBib/tech
   Nginx & PHP
   MySQL
   CouchDB
   Redis
   Node
   Open source:
   github.com/easybib
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5. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /EasyBib/tech
   Nginx & PHP
   MySQL
   Cloudant
   Redis
   Node
   Open source:
   github.com/easybib
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6. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /CouchDB
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7. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /CouchDB/time-to-relax
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8. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /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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9. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
   /prototype/huge-success
   • It’s schema-less.
   • HTTP — easy to grasp.
   • Never lost any data (not that it mattered).
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10. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /all/in
    • Transition citations & projects.
    • User-related still in SQL.
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11. What could possibly go wrong?
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12. Not so much!
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13. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /obstacles
    • updating CouchDB
    • multiple servers (wat)
    • EBS
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14. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant
    • To be able to scale.
    • To stay close to CouchDB.
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15. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2010
    • Dataset: 80 GB
    • The first migration to a shared cluster.
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16. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2010/lesson
    multi-tenancy is hard
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17. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2011
    dedicated cluster
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18. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2011/Q4
    • Dataset: ~180 GB
    • Migrated to a dedicated cluster on Rackspace.
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19. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2012
    • Lots of new people.
    • The released of new products.
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20. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /Cloudant/2013
    • Dataset: ~450 GB
    • We doubled capacity.
    • We became customers.
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21. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /retrospect
    • Happy database, happy customers!
    • We focused on products. :)
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22. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com
    /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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