Startup Technology Pitfalls and How to Avoid them
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- Startup Technology Pitfalls and How to Avoid them
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- BRYAN SHORT Originally from California Graduated from UCLA 9
years at Microsoft Office Windows Casual Games Xbox Live
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- BIG BETS
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- Architecture Technical Stack Storage
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- BIG BETS - Architecture
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- BIG BETS - CLOUD
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- EC2 Route 53 RDS S3 Glacier CloudFront MORE!!!
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- BIG BETS - CLOUD CloudFront Pricing for Dedicated IP Custom SSL
is simple. Because of the added cost associated with dedicating IP
addresses per SSL certificate, we charge a fixed monthly fee of
$600 for each custom SSL certificate you associate with your
CloudFront distributions, pro-rated by the hour.
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- BIG BETS - CLOUD In Search of New CDN
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- BIG BETS - CLOUD Requirements Host CDN powered by S3 SSL custom
cert required. Fast and Performant Price Doesnt need to be
fastest
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- BIG BETS - Technical Stack
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- Requirements Able to service http requests Community of active
developers Open source friendly Enables engineering excellence
Modern
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- BIG BETS Mongo? Node / Angular / Express all made total sense.
Our data is inherently very relational. What to do?
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack How did we do?
JavaPHPRubyJavascriptPython 20098573357714513678311210
20102388814910267522751519417 20118192183093827288192166052
2012406197270583478817452320264669 2013
328659255883405824529878210953 2014 220319132449196914280972108289
78, 701 Packages available on NPM!
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack How did we do? Not so good things: NPM
unreliable Not all modules created equally!
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack A Tale of Two Modules Module 1Module 2
Days since last commit6020 External DependenciesNoYes Open
Issues17418
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Deployment If adding a single
dependency to deployment overcomplicates it; than your deployment
process is broken.
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Deployment Like most engineering, its
easiest to do the wrong thing.
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Integrated Pipeline
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Test Code Adds incredible value when
we you have a product which has logic and behavior to validate.
Inside Social is lacking in test code.
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Test Code
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Test Code How are we doing?
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Test Code Corollary! Code that we put
onto our clients sites needs to be tested, and ready for prime time
production. The worst thing that we can do is break a customers
site.
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- BIG BETS Technical Stack Test Code Corollary! I am amazed at
how many brands, lack any sort of test site / infrastructure and
just drop us onto their production site.
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- BIG BETS - Storage
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- Short term
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- BIG BETS - Storage Short term Requirements: Handle lots of
writes quickly (implied in memory) Be able to serialize itself,
such that state can be restored on another machine SDK
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- BIG BETS - Storage Short term How did we do? One month later
Aerospike released V3. December 16 th, 2013 Amazon unveils Kinesis
service.
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- BIG BETS Data Store Data Store
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- BIG BETS Data Store How did we do?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/google-launches-bigquery-streaming-for-
real-time-big-data-analytics/
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- BIG BETS Data Store How did we do? A UW big data study:A UW big
data study: BigQuery is very easy to setup and run queries and does
not require any manual conguration of clusters; it automatically
scales up according the dataset size. But this can be a
disadvantage as well, since the user cannot tune the system
according to his/her needs. However it has limited SQL language
support and does not scale up well on complex queries involving
multiple joins and nested subqueries.
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- BIG BETS Data Store How did we do?
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- BIG BETS Data Store How did we do? What are we missing? Full
SQL Data Removal / Archival What works well? Pricing NoSQL
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- BIG BETS - Architecture
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- How are we doing? Were able to accomplish our mediate goals!
Great Success!
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- BIG BETS - Architecture How are we doing? Can we solve our long
term problems? Real time? Complex system that evaluates what social
marketing tactics, and learns from them?
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- The road ahead Once we have something stable, that people can
utilize it is time to revisit some bets. Inside Social will be
reexamining short term data store + data store options.
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- Thank You ? Any Questions