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The Art of the Spike
Aaron BedraPrincipal, Relevance, Inc.
Copyright 2007-2010 Relevance, Inc. This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
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DRY
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Do you have 10 years of
experience or the same year 10
times?Saturday, May 15, 2010
So you’re starting a new project...
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Yes but why?
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Business value
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“Faster”
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“Better”
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“Easier”
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A Jedi craves not these things
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Making money
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Preserving reputation
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We’ve just been assigned a new
project
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Credit card authorization
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Very lean information set
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Number, available credit, per charge
limit
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Lookup by card number
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Web service for charges
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Transaction speed is essential
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Ok let’s get down to planning
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We’ve decided to use clojure as a
language
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And PostgreSQL as a database
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But wait!
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Has anyone heard about Redis?
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It might be a good fit for this
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We should spike it out!
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Research time
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Record everything!
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Time-box everything!
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Getting started
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All technology you are about to
encounter should be treated as a first
class citizen!
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Download and install
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How did it go?
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Should we keep going?
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Interfacing
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Is there an SDK or API?
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In the language you are using?
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Does it work?
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Should we keep going?
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Prototype code
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Simple CRUD
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How long did it take?
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Should we keep going?
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Reference Example
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What does my team think?
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Should we keep going?
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Operations
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How do we deploy it?
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How do we monitor it?
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Should we keep going?
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Performance
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How fast can a single instance go?
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Can it scale?
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How does it compare to our
original idea?
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Does it help us meet our “why”
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Should we keep going?
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Management / Client
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We did a spike and here’s what
we found
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Easy to install
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Easy to use
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The dev team has a reference
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Dev team feels they can be
productive on day one
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Easy deployment
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Easy monitoring
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In memory
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Outperforms our RDBMS
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Easy and fast scaling
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Questions?
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Contact
• aaronbedra.com (blog)
• @abedra (twitter)
• github.com/abedra
• speakerrate.com/talks/3252
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