May 2017
Intermediate
40m
English
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Viadeo is the #1 professional social network in France with over 9 million members. Founded in 2005, the company grew its business using traditional infrastructure (about 250 servers hosted in the US).
However, a number of challenges started to rise in 2014:
- Can the agility of our infrastructure match our software agility?
- In particular, how can we efficiently scale our data storage and processing capabilities?
- How can we build a better disaster recovery plan?
- How can we globally optimize our infrastructure spend?
After a thorough study, Viadeo decided in early 2015 to migrate 100% of its physical infrastructure to Amazon Web Services.
This presentation will cover:
- the thought process that led to this unconventional move (for an established company like Viadeo),
- our design options and trade-offs, focusing on delivery speed and risk avoidance,
- why we did or didn’t alter parts of our stack, especially on the backend side (MySQL, ElasticSearch, HBase, Hadoop),
- the complete automation and testing of our infrastructure build, aka “infrastructure as code” using AWS CloudFormation, Puppet, and continuous integration
- and more!
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