1. MassTLC conference
December 19, 2012

2. Vistaprint today at a glance
Revenue of > $1 Billion last year, ~20 million orders
3 Production DCs; primary DC hosts 50 wwws, 1 DB server
>2 PB of total storage, mostly customer uploads
.Net primarily (overwhelmingly C#)
MS-SQL (YeSQL J)
Downside: Lots of hand-coded, home-grown infrastructure
Zero downtime release process, DB wrappers, CPU affinity,
page/request routing, syslog-based telemetry, build/deploy
Not an intentional strategy, but covering for operational gaps
Migrating towards COTS packages in select cases
Company Confidential Vistaprint © 2010 2

3. Vistaprint at a glance
1*
Lots of hand-coded, home-grown infrastructure
50* Zero downtime release process, DB wrappers,
caching, CPU affinity, page/request routing,
>> syslog-based telemetry, build/deploy/monitor
Company Confidential Vistaprint © 2010 3

4. Vistaprint Future
• Continuing to grow quickly in multiple dimensions
• Substantial investment in architecture over coming years
100 person-years of effort going into arch over 5 years
• Moving towards a component/services-based approach
Know how to change engines on an airplane while flying?
• All hosting is on-premises today; 2013 will have substantial
use of cloud computing in a hybrid model (on-premise/cloud)
We’re hiring across all technology disciplines!
Company Confidential Vistaprint © 2010 4