The Art of the Spike

The Art of the Spike Aaron Bedra Principal, 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/ Saturday, May 15, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

DRY Saturday, May 15, 2010

Do you have 10 years of experience or the same year 10 times? Saturday, May 15, 2010

So you’re starting a new project... Saturday, May 15, 2010

Yes but why? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Business value Saturday, May 15, 2010

“Faster” Saturday, May 15, 2010

“Better” Saturday, May 15, 2010

“Easier” Saturday, May 15, 2010

A Jedi craves not these things Saturday, May 15, 2010

Making money Saturday, May 15, 2010

Preserving reputation Saturday, May 15, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

We’ve just been assigned a new project Saturday, May 15, 2010

Credit card authorization Saturday, May 15, 2010

Very lean information set Saturday, May 15, 2010

Number, available credit, per charge limit Saturday, May 15, 2010

Lookup by card number Saturday, May 15, 2010

Web service for charges Saturday, May 15, 2010

Transaction speed is essential Saturday, May 15, 2010

Ok let’s get down to planning Saturday, May 15, 2010

We’ve decided to use clojure as a language Saturday, May 15, 2010

And PostgreSQL as a database Saturday, May 15, 2010

But wait! Saturday, May 15, 2010

Has anyone heard about Redis? Saturday, May 15, 2010

It might be a good ﬁt for this Saturday, May 15, 2010

We should spike it out! Saturday, May 15, 2010

Research time Saturday, May 15, 2010

Record everything! Saturday, May 15, 2010

Time-box everything! Saturday, May 15, 2010

Getting started Saturday, May 15, 2010

All technology you are about to encounter should be treated as a ﬁrst class citizen! Saturday, May 15, 2010

Download and install Saturday, May 15, 2010

How did it go? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Should we keep going? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Interfacing Saturday, May 15, 2010

Is there an SDK or API? Saturday, May 15, 2010

In the language you are using? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Does it work? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Prototype code Saturday, May 15, 2010

Simple CRUD Saturday, May 15, 2010

How long did it take? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Reference Example Saturday, May 15, 2010

What does my team think? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Operations Saturday, May 15, 2010

How do we deploy it? Saturday, May 15, 2010

How do we monitor it? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Performance Saturday, May 15, 2010

How fast can a single instance go? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Can it scale? Saturday, May 15, 2010

How does it compare to our original idea? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Does it help us meet our “why” Saturday, May 15, 2010

Management / Client Saturday, May 15, 2010

We did a spike and here’s what we found Saturday, May 15, 2010

Easy to install Saturday, May 15, 2010

Easy to use Saturday, May 15, 2010

The dev team has a reference Saturday, May 15, 2010

Dev team feels they can be productive on day one Saturday, May 15, 2010

Easy deployment Saturday, May 15, 2010

Easy monitoring Saturday, May 15, 2010

In memory Saturday, May 15, 2010

Outperforms our RDBMS Saturday, May 15, 2010

Easy and fast scaling Saturday, May 15, 2010

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Questions? Saturday, May 15, 2010

Contact • aaronbedra.com (blog) • @abedra (twitter) • aaron@thinkrelevance.com • github.com/abedra • speakerrate.com/talks/3252 Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Art of the Spike

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